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MAJOR ISSUES
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AGNIPATH
RECRUITMENT
SCHEME
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received 94000 applications under
the Agnipath recruitment scheme within four days of the registration
process getting under way,a week after violent protests against it
rocked several states.
Unveiling the Agnipath scheme on June 14, the government had said
youth between the ages of 17-and-a-half and 21 years would be
inducted for a four-year tenure, while 25 per cent of them will be
subsequently inducted for regular service.
Several parts of the country had witnessed violent protests against the
scheme.
The government had on June 16 increased the upper age limit for
recruitment under the scheme to 23 years from 21 for the year 2022,
and subsequently announced a slew of placatory steps like preference
for them in central paramilitary forces and defence public sector
undertakings upon their retirement.
What exactly is the Agnipath scheme?
 The Agnipath scheme provides for the recruitment of all Army,
Navy and IAF personnel (except officers) for a period of four years. The youngsters recruited under the scheme
will be called "Agniveers", who will be in the age group of 17.5 to 21 years and receive a monthly salary of Rs
30,000 to Rs 40,000.
 For 2022, the government has allowed people up to the age of 23 to apply.
 Training period: 6 months + deployment for three and a half years.
Salary and Benefits:
 Recruits will get starting salary of Rs 30,000, along with additional benefits which will go up to Rs 40,000 by the end
of the four-year service.
 During this period, 30 per cent of their salary will be set aside under a Seva Nidhi programme, and the government will
contribute an equal amount every m onth, and it will also accrue interest. At the end of the four-year period, each
soldier will get Rs 11.71 lakh as a lump sum amount, which will be tax-free.
 After the completion of four years, nearly 25% of the Agniveers will be selected for regular cadre for a full term of
another 15 years while the remaining 75% will be demobilized with an exit package called "Seva Nidhi". The package
will be worth Rs 11.71 lakh and include a skill certificate. But there will be no pension or gratuity.
 The government aims to recruit as many as 46,000 soldiers (including sailors and airmen) on an ―all-India, all-class‖
basis within 90 days. This will make up around 3 per cent of the armed forces.
Benefits
Make the armed forces much leaner and younger:
For India‘s over 13-lakh strong armed forces, the current average age profile is 32 years. It is envisaged it will come down
by about 4-5 years by implementation of this scheme
Reduce the defence pension bill:
The government has either allocated or paid more than Rs. 3.3 lakh crore in defence pension since 2020.
As per Army calculations, the savings for the government in this ‗Tour of Duty model‘ of recruitment from just one sepoy
would be around 11.5 cr (the army initially proposed a 3-year service model).
Create “future-ready” soldiers:
A youthful armed forces will allow them to be easily trained for new technologies.
Increased employment opportunities and higher skilled workforce:
Apart from job opportunities in the army, recruits because of the skills and experience acquired during the four-year service
such soldiers will get employment in various fields.
The central government will likely give preference to Agniveers in regular employment after their four years stint.
Concerns regarding the scheme:
Present benefits and security of jobs will be lost: Recruits will not get permanent jobs or promised pension and health
benefits even after retirement.
Doubt about training: 6 months of short training may not be enough to trust them with the same kind of tasks that current
troops can be trusted with.
Erosion of loyalty: ―All India, all class‖ recruitment to the services may lead to the erosion of the loyalty that a soldier has
for his regiment.
Similar schemes in other countries:
Voluntary tour of duty: In the USA tours are 6-9 or even 12 months‘ deploymentdepending upon the needs of the military
and branch of service.
Mandatory tour of duty (called conscription): Countries that follow the practice of conscription include Israel, Norway,
North Korea, and Sweden.

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1 5 YEARS OF GOODS AND

SERVICES TAX (GST)
Five years after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into force, the much-debated indirect tax regime seems to be
finally stabilising.
Objectives and need of GST
 The reasons for adopting a single rate structure in most countries are to have a simple tax system, prevent
misclassifications and litigations arising therefrom, and to avoid an inverted duty structure of taxes on inputs
exceeding those on outputs requiring detailed scrutiny and refunds.
Overview of GST
 It is India‘s biggest indirect tax reform and was introduced in India from 1 July 2017.
 It follows a multi-stage collection mechanism.
o It is a single tax on the supply of goods and services, right from the manufacturer to the consumer.
 Credits of input taxes paid at each stage will be available in the subsequent stage of value addition, which
makes GST essentially a tax only on value addition at each stage.
 The final consumer will thus bear only the GST charged by the last dealer in the supply chain, with set-off
benefits at all the previous stages.
 It is meant to be a unified indirect tax across the country on products and services.
Salient Features of GST
 It is applicable on ‗supply‘ of goods or services as against the present concept on the manufacture of goods or on
sale of goods or on provision of services.
 It is based on the principle of destination-based consumption taxation as against the present principal of origin-
based taxation.
 It is a dual GST with the Centre and the States simultaneously levying tax on a common base.
o The GST to be levied by the Centre would be called Central GST(CGST) and that to be levied by the States
would be called State GST (SGST).
o An Integrated GST (IGST) would be levied an inter-state supply (including stock transfers) of goods or
services.
o GST is being levied at four rates viz. 5%, 12%, 16% and 28%.
 The GST would apply to all goods other than alcoholic liquor for human consumption and five petroleum
products, viz. petroleum crude, motor spirit (petrol), high speed diesel, natural gas and aviation turbine fuel.
 The GST Council headed by the Union Finance Minister is the governing and key decision-making body for GST.
Achievements
 GST revenues have shown reasonably high buoyancy with collections of over Rs 1 lakh crore in the last 10 months
and touching a record of Rs 1.68 lakh crore in April 2022.
 The GSTN has been able to stabilise the technology platform.
 Mandating the issue of e-invoicing for all businesses above Rs 100 crore has enabled better invoice matching and
detection of fake invoices that were used to claim the input tax credit.
o This has helped to improve tax compliance and has also enabled better enforcement.
 In India, it has been a remarkable achievement and a unique experiment in cooperative federalism.
 In this, both the Union and the state governments gave up their tax autonomy in favour of harmonising domestic
trade taxes.
 It helped the country in transitioning to an automated indirect tax ecosystem.
o From electronic compliances, generation of e-invoices to tracking movement of goods through e-waybill -
everything is now online
 The E-invoicing system helped reduce fake invoicing.
o Use of technology with online bill generation has resulted in smoother consignment movement and much
fewer disputes with officials.
 After the introduction of GST, there has been a significant reduction in transaction costs.
 GST has improved the competitiveness of domestic industries in the international market by removing hidden and
embedded taxes.
 A system of seamless tax-credits throughout the value-chain, and across boundaries of States, would ensure that
there is minimal cascading of taxes.
 This would reduce hidden costs of doing business.
 GST gave a major boost to the ‗Make in India‘ initiative of the Government of India by making goods and
services produced in India competitive in the National as well as International market.

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12TH MINISTERIAL
2 CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD
TRADE ORGANIZATION
Recently, the World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Major Outcomes of 12th Ministerial Conference Meeting
 Curtailing harmful fishing subsidies:
o The WTO passed a multilateral agreement that would curb ‗harmful‘ subsidies on illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing for the next four years, to better protect global fish stocks.
o There would be no limitation on subsidies granted or maintained by developing or least-developed countries for
fishing within their exclusive economic zones (EEZ).
o India‟s role:
 India and other developing countries successfully pushed to remove a section of the proposal that
would threaten some subsidies which would assist small-scale artisanal fishing.
 So, artisanal and traditional farmers would not face any restrictions under this agreement.
 Global Food Security:
o Members agreed to a binding decision to exempt food purchased by the UN‘s World Food Programme (WFP) for
humanitarian purposes, from any export restrictions.
o WTO members issued a declaration on the importance of trade in global food security and that they would avoid
bans on food exports.
o This declaration was issued in light of the global food shortages and rising prices caused by the war
between Ukraine and Russia.
o However, countries would be allowed to restrict food supplies to ensure domestic food security needs.
 E-commerce transactions:
o India asked the WTO to review the extension of the moratorium on custom duties on e-commerce transactions,
which include digitally-traded goods and services.
o All the members agreed to continue the moratorium on custom duties on electronic transmission (ET) until the
subsequent Ministerial Conference or until March 31, 2024, depending on whichever comes first.
o ETs consist of online deliveries such as music, e-books, films, software and video games.
o They differ from other cross-border e-commerce since they are ordered online but not delivered physically.
 Covid-19 vaccine production:
o WTO members agreed to temporarily waive intellectual property patents on Covid-19 vaccines without the consent
of the patent holder for 5 years so that they can more easily manufacture them domestically.
Issues/Criticisms
 Fishing subsidies:
o Since 2001, member states have been negotiating to ban subsidies that promote overfishing.
o Critics argued that this agreement would only restrict and not eradicate subsidies on illegal fishing.
 E-commerce transactions:
o Developing countries faced the brunt of the financial consequences of this moratorium.
o From 2017-2020, developing countries lost a potential tariff revenue of around $50 billion on imports from only 49
digital products.
 Covid-19 vaccine production:
o Critics argue that The current agreement is a watered-down version of the original proposal made by India and
South Africa in 2020.
o They had wanted broader intellectual property waivers on vaccines, treatments and tests.
o It was also criticised for not covering all medical tools like diagnostics and treatments.
India‟s Concerns
 A permanent solution on public stockholding of food grains was not discussed at the MC12.
o This issue is vitally important for India as it had to secure its rights to continue its food subsidy programme,
notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by the agreement on agriculture.
 Another critical issue for India is that it is not allowed to export food grains from publicly held stocks.
o As India‘s exports of food grains have increased, several WTO members have questioned whether grains from the
publicly held food stocks are being exported.
o But the MC12 did not enable India to address its concerns.
o India had asked the WTO to review the extension of the moratorium on custom duties on e-commerce transactions,
which include digitally-traded goods and services.

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3 INDIA-BANGLADESH JOINT
CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION
Recently, the seventh round of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) was held in New Delhi.
Outcomes of the meeting
 Both the countries expressed satisfaction that despite challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, both countries have
worked closer than ever before in every sector.
o Cooperation is seen in sectors like security and border management to mutually beneficial trade and
investment flows, as well as enhanced bilateral and sub-regional multimodal connectivity, greater power and
energy cooperation, developmental assistance and capacity building exchanges, cultural and closer people-to-
people ties.
 The plan is to further work closely together to deepen and strengthen cooperation in the areas of:
o Common rivers and water resources management,
o IT and cybersecurity,
o Renewable energy,
o Agriculture and food security,
o Sustainable trade,
o Climate change and
o Disaster management
 Both sides reiterated the importance of safe, speedy and sustainable return of the forcibly displaced persons from
the Rakhine State to Myanmar, currently being sheltered by Bangladesh.
Significance of the meeting
 Land Boundary Agreement and River management:
 India and Bangladesh have resolved border problems through the Land Boundary Agreement of 2015.
 But both the countries have been in dialogue over the sharing of multiple rivers that define the borders and impact
lives and livelihoods on both sides.
 Bangladesh has been particularly keen on receiving a fair share of the waters of the Teesta that flows through the
northern part of West Bengal.
 Repatriation of Rohingyas:
 Bangladesh has been hosting more than a million displaced persons from Rakhine, known as the Rohingyas, since
2017.
 2022 marks the fifth year of the exile of this community that Dhaka wants to repatriate with ―security and dignity‖.

DRAFT NATIONAL DATA

4 GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
POLICY
Recently, the draft plan on the National Data Governance Framework was released by the Ministry of Electronics & IT
(MeitY).
Draft National Data Governance Framework Policy (NDGFP)
 Focus of the Policy:
o The draft policy focuses on improving the institutional framework for:
 Government data sharing,
 Promoting principles around privacy and security by design, and
 Encouraging the use of anonymization tools.
 Aim:
o To standardise the government's data collection and management while catalysing AI and Data led research and a
startup ecosystem.
 India Data Management Office (IDMO):
o The draft includes plans for setting up the India Data Management Office (IDMO) on the lines of the US Federal
Data Management Office.
 IDMO will be set up under Digital India Corporation for framing, managing and periodically revising the
policy.
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o As per the draft, all ministries will have data management units (DMUs)
o DMUs will be headed by a Chief Data Officer.
 They will be responsible for the implementation of the data governance policy.
 Sharing of data:
o The policy also seeks to ‗encourage‘ private companies to share non-personal data with startups as part of the
effort.
o IDMO shall notify protocols for sharing of non-personal datasets while ensuring privacy, security and trust.
o IDMO will notify rules to provide data on priority/exclusively to Indian/ India-based requesting entities.
Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 2022
 Earlier the Centre released the draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 2022.
 Issues:
o However, it was criticised by internet activists and civil society members over its bid to monetise non-personal
data gathered from citizens.
o Under fire, the government later rescinded the policy and unveiled the new framework in May this year under the
new name, NDGFP.
 Changes:
 The new framework has skipped the contentious clause that allowed the sale of data collected by the government
in the open market.

5 ASEAN-INDIA FOREIGN
MINISTERS MEET
The Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (SAIFMM) is hosted by India.
More about the event:
 The SAIFMM is the first ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers' Meeting (FMM) hosted by India in New Delhi.
o It marked two major anniversaries:
 The 30th anniversary of India‘s dialogue relations with ASEAN.
 The 10th anniversary of India‘s Strategic Partnership with ASEAN.
o Myanmar was not the part of the event.
 ASEAN-India Friendship year:
o The year 2022 has also been designated as the ASEAN-India Friendship year.
 ASEAN-India Senior Officials meeting:
o 24th ASEAN-India Senior Officials meeting also took place in New Delhi on June 15th, 2022.
 Track 1.5 Dialogue:
o The 12th edition of Delhi Dialogue (DD) followed the SAIFMM in New Delhi.
o The theme this year of DD-XII is ‗‘Building Bridges in the Indo-Pacific‘‘.
Outcomes of the meeting
 Global challenges:
o ASEAN countries agreed to uphold multilateralism in jointly responding to the regional and global challenges
o Ukraine crisis and its knock-on effects on food, energy security, prices of fertilisers and commodities as well as
logistics and supply chains.
 China‟s assertiveness in the region:
 The ASEAN reaffirmed the ―commitment to multilateralism founded on the principles of the international law,
including the Charter of the United Nations, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS) and other relevant UN treaties and conventions, maintain an open and inclusive regional cooperation
framework, support ASEAN Centrality in the evolving rules-based regional architecture, uphold multilateralism in
jointly responding to regional and global challenges.

6
FATF (FINANCIAL ACTION
TASK FORCE)
Ahead of the plenary session of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial crime watchdog, from
June 14 to 17 in Berlin, Pakistan which continues to face an economic crunch, is hoping for some respite in the form of
its removal from the FATF’s ‘grey list’ or the list of countries presenting a risk to the global financial system.

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What is the FATF?
 The Financial Action Task Force is an international watchdog for financial crimes such as money laundering and terror
financing.
 It was established at the G7 Summit of 1989 in Paris to address loopholes in the global financial system after member
countries raised concerns about growing money laundering activities.
 In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack on the U.S., FATF also added terror financing as a main focus area.
 This was later broadened to include restricting the funding of weapons of mass destruction.
 The FATF currently has 39 members.
 The decision-making body of the FATF, known as its plenary, meets thrice a year.
 Its meetings are attended by 206 countries of the global network, including members, and observer organisations, such
as the World Bank, some offices of the United Nations, and regional development banks.
 The FATF sets standards or recommendations for countries to achieve in order to plug the holes in their financial
systems and make them less vulnerable to illegal financial activities.
 It conducts regular peer-reviewed evaluations called Mutual Evaluations (ME) of countries to check their performance
on standards prescribed by it.
 The reviews are carried out by FATF and FATF-Style Regional Bodies (FSRBs), which then release Mutual Evaluation
Reports (MERs).
 For the countries that don't perform well on certain standards, time-bound action plans are drawn up.
 Recommendations for countries range from assessing risks of crimes to setting up legislative, investigative and judicial
mechanisms to pursue cases of money laundering and terror funding.
What are FATF‟s „grey‟ and „black‟ lists?
 While the words ‗grey‘ and ‗black‘ list do not exist in the official FATF lexicon, they designate countries that need to
work on complying with FATF directives and those who are non-compliant, respectively.
 At the end of every plenary meeting, FATF comes out with two lists of countries. The grey countries are designated as
―jurisdictions under increased monitoring‖, working with the FATF to counter criminal financial activities. For such
countries, the watchdog does not tell other members to carry out due-diligence measures vis-a-vis the listed country but
does tell them to consider the risks such countries possess. Currently, 23 countries including Pakistan are on the grey
list.
 As for the black list, it means countries designated as ‗high-risk jurisdictions subject to call for action‘. In this case, the
countries have considerable deficiencies in their AML/CFT (anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing)
regimens and the body calls on members and non-members to apply enhanced due diligence. In the most serious cases,
members are told to apply counter-measures such as sanctions on the listed countries.
 Currently, North Korea and Iran are on the black list.
 Being listed under the FATF‘s lists makes it hard for countries to get aid from organisations like the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Union. It may also affect capital inflows,
foreign direct investments, and portfolio flows.

7 ELECTION OF PRESIDENT
The Election Commission has notified the election of India’s 15 th President.
 Under Article 62(1) of the Constitution, an election to fill a vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of office
of President shall be completed before the expiration of the term.
 The President is elected not directly by the people but by members of electoral college consisting of:
1. The elected members of both the Houses of Parliament;
2. The elected members of the legislative assemblies of the states; and
3. The elected members of the legislative assemblies of the Union Territories of Delhi and Puducherry.
 This Electoral College doesn‘t consist of nominated members of Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha and the Assemblies, and
members of state Legislative Councils.
 Value of Vote - The votes are weighted, their value determined by the population of each state as per Census
1971.
 The value of each MLA‘s vote varies from a high of 208 in Uttar Pradesh to a low of 7 in Sikkim.
 This means that UP‘s 403 MLAs contribute 208 × 403 = 83,824 votes to the electoral pool, while Sikkim‘s 32
MLAs contribute 32 × 7 = 224 votes.
 The weighted votes from all the Assemblies add up to 5.43 lakh.
 The process demands that all the 776 MPs should contribute the same total of votes as the MLAs.
 Thus, the value of each MP‘s vote is 5.43 lakh divided by 776, rounded off to 700. The combined electoral pool
from the Assemblies and Parliament adds up to 10.86 lakh.
History

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 1952 and 1957: In both the first and the second election, Rajendra Prasad won without a no-contest.
 1969: This election, necessitated by the sudden passing of President Hussain, was the most controversial of them
all.
 Under Article 65(1) of the Constitution, Vice-President V V Giri assumed office as acting President, but resigned
in 1969 as Vice President and also as acting President.
 There were tensions within the Congress between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and a group of veterans known as
the Syndicate.
 These tensions came to a head when the party officially fielded Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy while Gandhi threw her
weight behind Giri, contesting as an independent.

8
THE DEBATES AROUND
THE SURROGACY ACT
Petitioners in the Delhi High Court questioned why marital status, age, or gender were the criteria for being allowed to
commission or not commission surrogacy in India
What is the Surrogacy Act?
 The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill was introduced in Parliament in November 2016, and passed in the winter session of
Parliament in 2021.
 The Act sought to regulate the surrogacy part of a rather flourishing infertility industry in the country.
 Defining ‗surrogacy‘ as a practice where a woman undertakes to give birth to a child for another couple and agrees to
hand over the child to them after birth, it allows ‗altruistic surrogacy‘ wherein only the medical expenses and insurance
coverage is provided by the couple to the surrogate mother during pregnancy. No other monetary consideration will be
permitted.
Why is there a need for a Surrogacy Act in India?
 India has emerged as a hub for infertility treatment, attracting people from the world over with its state of the art
technology and competitive prices to treat infertility.
 Due to prevailing socio-economic inequities, underprivileged women found an option to ‗rent their wombs‘ and
thereby make money to take care of their expenses — often to facilitate a marriage, enable children to get an education,
or to provide for hospitalisation or surgery for someone in the family.
 Once information of the availability of such wombs got out, the demand also picked up. Unscrupulous middle men
inveigled themselves into the scene and exploitation of these women began.
 Several instances began to emerge where women, in often desperate straits, started lodging police complaints after they
did not receive the promised sum.
 Other issues also began to crop up. For instance, in 2008 a Japanese couple began the process with a surrogate mother
in Gujarat, but before the child was born they split with both of them refusing to take the child. In 2012, an Australian
couple commissioned a surrogate mother, and arbitrarily chose one of the twins that were born.
 The time therefore, was ripe for proper regulation.
Who all are allowed to make use of the services of a surrogate mother?
 Any couple that has ‗proven infertility‘ are candidates. The ‗intending couple‘ as the Act calls them, will be eligible if
they have a ‗certificate of essentiality‘ and a ‗certificate of eligibility‘ issued by the appropriate authority. The former
will be issued if the couple fulfils three conditions: One, a certificate of infertility of one or both from a district medical
board; Two, an order of parentage and custody of the surrogate child passed by a Magistrate‘s court; Thirdly, insurance
cover for the surrogate mother.
 An eligibility certificate mandates that the couple fulfil the following conditions: They should be Indian citizens who
have been married for at least five years; the female must be between 23 to 50 years and the male, 26 to 55 years; they
cannot have any surviving children (biological, adopted or surrogate); However, this would not include a ‗child who is
mentally or physically challenged or suffers from life threatening disorder or fatal illness.‘
Who can become a surrogate mother?
 Only a close relative of the couple can be a surrogate mother, one who is able to provide a medical fitness certificate.
 She should have been married, with a child of her own, and must be between 25 and 35 years, but can be a surrogate
mother only once.
What are the controversies behind the Act?
 Even at the Bill stage, while there was a general murmur of appreciation, and some strident approval from infertility
experts, there was some apprehension about the too restrictive regulations.
 For instance, it does not allow single women, or men, or gay couples to go in for surrogacy. Representations from these
groups emerged even as Health Minister J.P. Nadda introduced the Bill in the House.
 Others, primarily those involved in organ transplantation, pointed out how despite a similar, stringent law — the
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 Brokers continue to operate, though with less temerity and more covertly, sometimes with hospital authorities, to pull
wool over the eyes of the appropriate authority and law enforcement officials. Clearly the issue will have to be handled
with a stern visage, even as sensitivities of people are factored in.
What lies ahead?
 These apprehensions and perceived hitches due to the exclusionary criteria, have already come to the forefront in the
short period that the Act has been operational. A path of litigation is possibly the course ahead, and if a critical mass
builds up, amendments might have to be resorted to in order to resolve the grievances and ensure access for all
categories of parents.


9 DIGITAL INDIA MISSION
It is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered
society and knowledge economy.
 Launched on July 1, 2015.
 Vision Areas:
 Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen
 Governance & Services on Demand
 Digital Empowerment of Citizens
Pillars of Digital India
 Broadband Highways– This covers three sub components, namely Broadband for All – Rural, Broadband for All –
Urban and National Information Infrastructure (NII).
 Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity- This initiative focuses on network penetration and filling the gaps in
connectivity in the country.
 Public Internet Access Programme- The two sub components of Public Internet Access Programme are Common
Services Centres (CSCs) and Post Offices as multi-service centres.
 e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology- Government Process Re-engineering using IT to simplify
and make the government processes more efficient is critical for transformation to make the delivery of government
services more effective across various government domains and therefore needs to be implemented by all Ministries/
Departments.
 e-Kranti – Electronic Delivery of Services- To improve the delivery of public services and simplify the process of
accessing them. In this regard, several e-governance initiatives have been undertaken by various State Governments and
Central Ministries to usher in an era of e-Government. e-Governance in India has steadily evolved from the
computerization of Government Departments to initiatives that encapsulate the finer points of Governance, such as
citizen centricity, service orientation and transparency.
 Information for All- This pillar aims to ensure transparency and availability of reliable data generated by the line
ministries for use, reuse and redistribution for the people of India.
 Electronics Manufacturing- This pillar focuses on promoting electronics manufacturing in the country.
 IT for Jobs- This pillar focuses on providing training to the youth in the skills required for availing employment
opportunities in the IT/ITES sector.
 Early Harvest Programmes- This pillar consists of a group of different short-term projects which have immediate
effect on the Indian digital ecosystem like IT platform for mass messaging, crowd Sourcing of eGreetings, biometric
attendance in the government offices, WI-FI in all universities etc.
Achievements
 India today is home to more than 75 crore smartphones, 133 crore Aadhaar cards, more than 80 crore internet users, has
4G and is now accelerating towards 5G. Above all, it has among the lowest data tariffs in the world.
 Digital India solved some of the most difficult problems the country had been facing for decades. Ensuring delivery of
government schemes to its beneficiaries without leakage or misuse remained a herculean task.
 The Jan-Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) trinity has ensured that the poorest receive every penny of their entitled
benefits. Financial benefits worth nearly Rs 23 lakh crore have been transferred using DBT technology in the last eight
years. This has led to savings of Rs 2.22 lakh crore of public money.
 During pandemic the digital ecosystem was also useful in tackling the challenge of the pandemic. From bulk
messages to people in quarantine areas giving useful information and using digital technology for vaccination to digital
education for students when schools were closed, there have been shining examples of empowerment, inclusion and
opportunity.
 Land Record, leveraging the power of drones and GIS technologies, SVAMITVA Yojana is providing digital land
records to the rightful owners. It reduces disputes and also facilitates monetisation of land for availing bank loans and
enables scientific village level planning. Nearly 2.14 crore land parcels have been digitised so far.
 Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas” Digital India reflects our core philosophy of ―Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas‖.

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 Bharat Net to provide high-speed broadband to all the villages, optical fibre has been laid in 1.83 lakh gram
panchayats under Bharat Net.
 Digital Payments India has emerged as the fastest-growing ecosystem for fintech innovations.
 India‟s digital payments revolution is being appreciated globally. This was made possible due to innovative digital
payment products like UPI and Aadhaar-Enabled Payment Systems (AEPS). When banks and ATMs were shut during
Covid-19, AEPS-based micro-ATM at CSCs and post offices provided doorstep delivery of cash.
 India is rapidly becoming atma nirbhar in electronics manufacturing.
 Services to citizens made easy: Getting Driving licence, birth certificate, paying electricity bill, paying water bill,
filing income tax return, have become very easy, very fast with the help of Digital India. All this is happening in
villages, in Common Service Centres (CSCs) near people‘s homes.
 PM WANI: Access points are being created so that rural youth can connect with high-speed internet for better services
and education.
 Also, 5G technology will bring significant changes in the world, and India is preparing itself to make the most of this
opportunity.
Challenges
 The issues pertaining to taxation and other regulatory guidelines have proved to be roadblocks in advancing with the
programme.
 Digital divide : Currently ,many villages remain deprived of mobile connectivity because their locations is not
commercially viable for service providers,
Way Forward
 In the last eight years, the success of Digital India only confirms that it has a robust future in India‘s development.
 Digital India has played a crucial role in citizen services. The movement will be taken forward by leveraging futuristic
technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and blockchain.
 The government needs to look at all possibilities and go into overdrive to bridge the digital divide.
 In rural and remote areas, private sector players should be incentivised to provide last mile connectivity.

NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
10 SURVEY (NAS)
A nationwide survey carried out by the Union Ministry of Education for the period of 2017 -2021 released recently.
What is the objective of the NAS?
 The NAS is a periodic exercise carried out broadly in alternate years to monitor the health of the country‘s school
education system.
 It has been designed by the Ministry of Education along with the National Council for Educational Research and
Training (NCERT) to provide a data of learning outcomes in key subjects essentially ―what students know and can do‖
at the end of Classes 3, 5, 8 and 10. These classes are generally seen to mark important stages in the development of a
child‘s cognitive abilities.
Since when has the NAS been carried out?
 The first edition of NAS was carried out in 2001.
 In the beginning, the survey was supposed to be an independent project of the NCERT, but it was soon brought under
the ambit of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the government‘s flagship programme to achieve universalisation of
elementary education (UEE), which has now been subsumed into the overarching Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.
 Over the years, the structure of the survey has undergone changes. Between 2001 and 2015, each cycle of the survey
covered students of just one grade — so, students of Class 3 were covered in 2003, 2007, 2012, and 2015; students of
Class 5 were surveyed in 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2014; those of Class 8 were surveyed in 2002, 2007, 2010, and 2015;
and students of Class 10 were covered in 2015 and 2018.
What is the current structure of the survey?
 In 2017-18, the NAS was redesigned. For the first time, students of all four grades were covered on the same day. Also,
instead of states, districts were made units of reporting, leading to a much bigger sample size.
 Until 2017-18, each cycle of NAS had a sample size of 1-2 lakh students; in 2017-18, over 20 lakh students were
covered on the same day.
 The latest (2021) round covered 34 lakh students in 1.18 lakh schools across 720 rural and urban districts.
And what exactly does the NAS assess?
 Until 2015-16, the survey assessed the competency of students based on the core curriculum followed by states and
UTs.
 In 2017-18, the focus moved to mapping the progress of learning outcomes as listed under the Right to Education Rules
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 Questions asked by the NAS are framed to assess whether students can read, and carry out simple mathematical
operations that are required in daily life.
 The levels of difficulty and complexity of the questions vary from one grade to another.
 In the higher classes, the survey also assesses the knowledge acquired by students in areas related to the Constitution of
India.
 The survey covers schools run by the central and state/UT governments, government-aided schools, and private unaided
schools.
 Language, mathematics and environmental science are assessed in Classes 3 and 5; language, maths, science and social
science in Class 8; and maths, social science, science and English are assessed for students in Class 10.
What does NAS 2021 show?
 Compared with 2017 (in 2018 only Class 10 students were assessed), performance has taken a hit across grades.
 A comparative analysis shows that the national average scores of students across subjects have dropped by up to 47
marks.
 In Class 3, the average scores of students in language, maths and EVS have dropped by 13, 15 and 14 marks
respectively.
 In Class 5, the scores in language, maths and EVS have dropped by 10, 26 and 27 marks.
 Class 8 has seen national average scores of language, maths, science and social science come down by 5, 14, 24, and 23
marks respectively.
 Class 10, maths, science, social science, and modern Indian language scores have dropped by 34, 47, 23 and 6 marks
respectively.
 Only the English score has risen by 24 marks.
Are there regional-, gender-, or community-wise variations?
 Except for Punjab and Rajasthan, the performance of nearly all states have declined compared to 2017 levels.
 In terms of 2021 numbers, 14 states and four UTs performed below the national average in Class 3; four UTs and 18
states performed below the national average in Class 5; 16 states and three UTs performed below the national average
in Class 8.
 There were no marked differences between the scores of boys and girls. There were some variations among
communities.
 For instance, in the case of Class 8 science, the scores of general category students have dropped by 9 marks, as
compared to 28, 26, and 19 marks for SCs, STs, and OBCs respectively.
 There is a distinct rural-urban divide — the maths scores of Class 8 students in rural schools have dropped by 12 marks
as against 4 marks by their urban counterparts.
What are the implications of the findings?
 The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), the NAS findings once again highlight the need for urgent
interventions to improve foundational learning levels.
 All data that is coming out is indicating that it need to seriously work on foundational learning and NAS is no
exception. It has come at the right time and as the New Year school begins, and schools reopen after the summer
holidays, the work is cut out for authorities.

G7 MEET OVER ANTI-MICROBIAL

11 RESISTANCE (AMR)
Recently, Group of Seven (G7) countries met at Berlin to join hands against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Major Highlights of the meeting
 Antimicrobial resistance as a bigger threat: Health ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) highly industrialised
countries recently recognised antimicrobial resistance was a bigger threat to low- and middle-income countries (LMIC)
even though fighting it was a shared responsibility.
 Death and effect on GDP: Nearly 700,000 people die of AMR every year. The toll can rise to as many as 10 million by
2050 and eat up 3.8 per cent of annual global gross domestic product (GDP).
 The G7 committed to establish new international integrated surveillance systems and improve existing ones to monitor
AMR and antibiotics use among humans, animals and plants and the effect on the environment.
 This will be in cooperation with the World Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture Organisation, World
Organisation for Animal Health and the United Nations Environment Programme.
 The aim is to enhance the scientific basis to inform risk assessments and identify opportunities for mitigation.
 The group also committed to promote prudent and appropriate use of antimicrobials through 2023 by defining national
measurable targets on AMR in line with domestic authorities, including antibiotic usage in human health.
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 According to WHO, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism (like bacteria, viruses, and some
parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (such as antibiotics, antivirals and antimalarials) from working against it. As a result,
standard treatments become ineffective, infections persist and may spread to others.
Factors Causing AMR in India
 Antibiotic Consumption: Inappropriate consumption of broad-spectrum (last resort) of antibiotics is high because of
changing prescription practice in the healthcare system due to the non-availability of a narrow spectrum of antibiotics.
 Social Factor: inappropriate antibiotic use among the general public like
 Self-medication to avoid the financial burden
 Doctors may perceive that they are compelled to give antibiotics as patients come with a preconceived idea of
quick relief.
 Nexus between doctors and pharmaceutical companies put pressure on doctors and pharmacists to prescribe new
antibiotics.
 Antibiotics Consumption in Food-Animals: Use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food animals and poultry is a
common practice and later it evolves in the food chain.
 Poor Sanitation: The large proportion of sewage is disposed of untreated into receiving water bodies, leading to gross
contamination of rivers with antibiotic residues, antibiotic-resistant organisms.
Challenges Posed by AMR
 Antibiotic resistance is emerging as the threat to successful treatment of infectious diseases, organ transplantation,
cancer chemotherapy and major surgeries.
 The issue of AMR causes out of pocket expenditure on health care, especially on medicines. The use of high order
drugs or second-line expensive antibiotics pushing treatment cost high.
 Neonates and elderly both are prone to infections and are vulnerable.
Global Concerns
 It is a global health and development threat.
 WHO has declared that AMR is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity.
 AMR is already responsible for up to 7,00,000 deaths a year.
 Unless urgent measures are taken to address this threat, we could soon face an unprecedented health and economic
crisis of 10 million annual deaths and costs of up to $100 trillion by 2050.
 Antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective as drug resistance spreads globally leading to more difficult to treat
infections and death.
 All these effects will be felt globally, but the scenario in the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Asia
and Africa is even more serious.
 LMICs have significantly driven down mortality using cheap and easily available antimicrobials. In the absence of
new therapies, health systems in these countries are at severe risk of being overrun by untreatable infectious
diseases.
Global Efforts in this Aspect
 Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP): Globally, countries committed to the framework set out in
the Global Action Plan1 (GAP) 2015 on AMR during the 2015 World Health Assembly and committed to the
development and implementation of multisectoral national action plans.
 Tripartite Joint Secretariat on Antimicrobial Resistance: Tripartite joint secretariat (FAO, OIE and WHO) has been
established and is hosted by WHO to drive multi-stakeholder engagement in AMR.
 Interagency Coordination Group (IACG) on AMR: It was convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations
after the UN High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance in 2016.
 The IACG brought together partners across the UN, international organisations and individuals with expertise
across human, animal and plant health, as well as the food, animal feed, trade to formulate a plan for the fight
against antimicrobial resistance.
 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW): WAAW was previously called the World Antibiotic Awareness
Week. From 2020, it will be called the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.
 It is a global campaign that aims to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
 Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS): WHO launched it in 2015 to continue
filling knowledge gaps and to inform strategies at all levels.
 GLASS has been conceived to progressively incorporate data from surveillance of AMR in humans, surveillance
of the use of antimicrobial medicines, AMR in the food chain and the environment.
 Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP): A joint initiative of WHO and the Drugs for
Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), GARDP encourages research and development through public-private
partnerships.
 By 2025, the partnership aims to develop and deliver five new treatments that target drug-resistant bacteria
identified by WHO as posing the greatest threat.
 Country wise initiatives:A multi-sectoral $1 billion AMR Action Fund was launched in 2020 to support the
development of new antibiotics, and the U.K. is trialling a subscription-based model for paying for new
antimicrobials towards ensuring their commercial viability.
 Peru‘s efforts on patient education to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions.
 Australian regulatory reforms to influence prescriber behaviour, and initiatives to increase the use of point-of-care
diagnostics, such as the EU-supported VALUE-Dx programme.

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 Denmark‘s reforms to prevent the use of antibiotics in livestock have not only led to a significant reduction in the
prevalence of resistant microbes in animals, but also improved the efficiency of farming.
India‟s Initiative
 To prevent the Over the counter sales of antibiotics, the central drug standard control organisation (CDSO) prohibits
medical stores from selling 24 key antibiotics without a doctor's prescription.
 India‟s Red Line campaign: Which demands that prescription-only antibiotics be marked with a red line, to
discourage the over-the-counter sale of antibiotics– is a step forward.
 National Health Policy, 2017, terms antimicrobial resistance as one of the key healthcare issues and prioritises the
development of guidelines regarding antibiotic use and check on restricting the growth of antibiotics.
 The National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR) 2017 has assigned coordinated tasks to multiple
government agencies involving health, education, environment, and livestock to change prescription practices and
consumer behaviour and to scale up infection control and antimicrobial surveillance.
 FSSAI has set certain guidelines limiting the antibiotics in food products such as fish and honey.
Way Forward
 Infection prevention and control: It will also aim to prepare the upcoming report on infection prevention and control
and present it at the World Health Summit.
 The health ministers called on WHO to develop guidance on a cost core package of AMR interventions that all
countries, especially LMICs could include to strengthen primary healthcare initiatives.
 A pandemic preparedness pact supported by the G7 health ministers focusing on collaborative surveillance and
predictable rapid response is also awaited.
 The ministers also pledged other actions to mitigate climate change and for healthcare.
 Though 90 per cent of countries have developed a multi-sectoral national action plan for AMR, only 20 per cent have
identified funding for implementing and monitoring these plans.

12 WHAT IS A UNICORN AND WHAT

DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME ONE?
Recently Prime Minister praised India’s start-up ecosystem as he highlighted that the country has reached a landmark
figure of 100 unicorns with a valuation of more than $300 billion.
What is a unicorn startup?
 Unicorns are privately held, venture-capital backed start-ups that have reached a value of $1 billion. The valuation
of unicorns is not expressly linked to their current financial performance, but largely based on their growth
potential as perceived by investors and venture capitalists who have taken part in various funding rounds.
When was the term first used?
 American venture capitalist Aileen Lee is credited with coining the term in 2013.
 It was used to emphasise the rarity of the emergence of such startups.
Are unicorns still a rarity?
 From the time the term was first used, it has become more common for startups to bag the unicorn tag, but the $1
billion valuation still gets industry attention, and is considered an impressive achievement.
 According to PitchBook, a financial data and software company, a convergence of private and market funding is
allowing more unicorns to emerge, faster.
What is India‟s unicorn record?
 A record 44 unicorns were established in India last year during the pandemic.
 14 more unicorns were formed anew in last four months this year.
 According to Invest India, the government‘s National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency, The year
2021, 2020, and 2019 saw the birth of the maximum number of Indian unicorns with 44, 11, and 7 unicorns
coming each year, respectively.
 Between 2015 and 2021, the country‘s startup ecosystem has seen a nine-time increase in the number of investors,
and a seven-time increase in the total funding of startups.
 India gradually transitioning from the age of unicorns to the age of decacorns. A decacorn is a company that has
attained a valuation of more than USD10 billion. As of May 2022, 47 companies world over have achieved the
decacorn status. India has four startups namely, Flip kart, BYJU‘s, Nykaa and Swiggy, added in the decacorn
cohort.

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ECONOMY
rbi in news
June bi-monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
report
 Policy Repo Rate: 4.90%
 Standing Deposit Facility (SDF): 4.65%
 Marginal Standing Facility Rate: 5.15%
 Bank Rate: 5.15%
 Fixed Reverse Repo Rate: 3.35%
 CRR: 4.50%
 SLR: 18.00%
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the
repo rate by 50 basis points.
 The RBI raised its inflation forecast for the
financial year 2022-23 (FY23) to 6.7 per cent from
its earlier estimate of 5.7 per cent.
 RBI retained its growth projection at 7.2 per cent
for the current fiscal. The MPC retained its forecast
for real GDP growth for 2022-23 at 7.2%. Output
was projected to expand by 16.2% in Q1, by 6.2%
in Q2, 4.1% in Q3 and rise 4.0% in Q4.
 Based on the assumption of a normal monsoon in
2022, and average crude oil price (Indian basket) of
$105 per barrel, inflation based on the Consumer
Price Index (CPI) was now projected by the RBI at
6.7% in 2022-23, with Q1 at 7.5%; Q2 at 7.4%; Q3
at 6.2%; and Q4 at 5.8%, with risks evenly
balanced.
RBI doubles home loan limits of co-op banks
 In a big boost to the home loan segment, the
Reserve Bank of India doubled the limit on housing
loans from cooperative banks and also permitted
rural cooperative banks (RCB) to finance residential
real estate projects to support affordable housing
and inclusive growth.
 The RBI allowed urban cooperative banks (UCBs)
to provide doorstep banking services to meet the
needs of customers, especially senior citizens and
differently abled persons.
 The limits for tier-I and tier-II UCBs have been
revised from Rs 30 lakh to Rs 60 lakh and Rs 70
lakh to Rs 1.40 crore, respectively. These limits
were last revised for UCBs in 2011 and for RCBs in
2009.
 For rural co-operative banks, the limits have been
revised from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 50 lakh for RCBs
with assessed net worth less than Rs 100 crore and
for other RCBs, the limits would increase from Rs
30 lakh to Rs 75 lakh.
 Rural co-operative banks can now extend finance to
commercial real estate, or loans for residential
housing projects, within the limit of 5% of their
total assets.
Debit, credit card: No OTP needed for recurring
payments up to Rs 15,000
 The Reserve Bank of India announced an increase
in limit for e-mandates/ standing instructions on
credit/debit cards and prepaid payment instruments
(PPIs) for recurring transactions to Rs 15,000, from
Rs 5,000 at present.
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 This means recurring payments up to Rs 15,000
will not require an additional factor authentication
such as an OTP.
RBI allows credit cards to be linked to UPI; Rupay
credit cards first in line
 The Reserve Bank allowed credit cards to be linked
with the unified payments interface (UPI), which
will enable more people to make payments using
the popular platform.
 Rupay credit cards issued by the RBI-promoted
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
will be enabled first, and will become available
after system developments.
 UPI has become the most inclusive mode of
payment in India, with over 26 crore unique users
and 5 crore merchants onboarded on the platform.
 In May, 594.63 crore transactions amounting to Rs
10.40 lakh crore were processed through UPI.
RBI's 'Payments Vision 2025' aims to establish India
as powerhouse of payments globally
 The Reserve Bank's 'Payments Vision 2025'
document, which seeks a three-fold jump in the
number of digital payments, is progressive and aims
to establish India as a powerhouse of payments
globally.
 The RBI on June 17 came out with its 'Payments
Vision 2025' document which also talks about ring-
fencing of domestic payment systems, including the
need to mandate domestic processing of payment
transactions, in view of the emerging geopolitical
risks.
 The core theme of the ‗Payments Vision 2025‘ is
‗E-Payments for Everyone, Everywhere,
Everytime‘
 They cover 47 specific initiatives and 10 expected
outcomes. Payments Vision 2025 builds on the
initiatives of Payments Vision 2019-21.
Various initiatives proposed during the Vision period
 Volume of cheque-based payments to be less than
0.25% of the total retail payments;
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 More than 3x increase in number of digital payment
transactions;
 UPI to register average annualised growth of 50%
and IMPS / NEFT at 20%;
 Increase of payment transaction turnover vis-à-vis
GDP to 8;
 Increase in debit card transactions at PoS by 20%;
 Debit card usage to surpass credit cards in terms of
value;
 Increase in PPI transactions by 150%;
 Card acceptance infrastructure to increase to 250
lakh;
 Increase of registered customer base for mobile
based transactions by 50% CAGR;
 Reduction in Cash in Circulation (CIC) as a
percentage of GDP.
RBI spent Rs 4,984.8 crore to print Rs 20, Rs 50, Rs
100, Rs 200 notes in FY22
 In the financial year 2021-22, the RBI spent Rs
4,984.8 crores on security printing of banknotes
purchased from printing presses. At Rs 4,012.1
crores, the spending was about 25% lower in
previous period.
 It is noteworthy that the total supply of banknotes
by printing presses BRBNMPL(Bharatiya Reserve
Bank Note Mudran Ltd) and SPMCIL was
marginally lower (2,23,301 lakh pieces in FY21 and
2,22,505 lakh pieces in FY22) this time vs previous
financial year.
 And this nearly Rs 5,000 crores overall cost of
printing currency in FY22 was the second-highest
by RBI, after an all-time high of nearly Rs 8,000
crores during the year of demonetisation (2016-17),
as per an HBL report.
 The selling price of banknotes in the denomination
of Rs 20, Rs 50, Rs 100 and Rs 200 have gone up in
FY22 vs the previous financial year. However, for
notes in the denomination of Rs 500, the prices
have remained unchanged for that period.
RBI announces results of 1st Global Hackathon
“HARBINGER 2021”
 Tone Tag, a brand of Naffa Innovations Pvt Ltd,
has been declared the winner in two categories in
the RBI's first global hackathon Harbinger 2021,
organised to encourage entrepreneurs to suggest
innovative solutions for smarter digital payments.
The Reserve Bank had launched its first global
hackathon - "Harbinger 2021 - Innovation for
Transformation" with the theme 'Smarter Digital
Payments' in November 2021.
 RBI said the hackathon had received an
encouraging response with 363 proposals submitted
by teams from within India and 22 other countries,
including the US, UK, Sweden, Singapore,
Philippines and Israel.
 India-based Tone Tag has been declared the winner
in two segments -- 'Innovative, easy-to-use, non-
mobile digital payment solutions for converting
small-ticket cash transactions to digital mode' and
'Context-based retail payments to remove the

physical act of paymen'.
In all, there were four categories.
 napID Cybersec Pvt Ltd (INDIA) and TrustCheckr
(INDIA) were the winners of the other two
categories.
AUGUST – 2022
RBI reduces net-worth requirement for non-bank
Bharat Bill Payment units
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has eased norms
for non-bank entities to set up Bharat Bill Payment
operating units by reducing the net-worth
requirement to Rs 25 crore, with a view to
encouraging more players in the segment.
 At present, a net worth of Rs 100 crore is required
to obtain authorisation for a non-bank BBPOU
(Bharat Bill Payment Operating Units). The
reduction in net-worth requirements follows an
announcement regarding the same by the central
bank in April.
Rs 100 is the most preferred banknote, Rs 2,000 the
least: RBI survey
 The Reserve Bank of India‘s Banknote Survey of
Consumers findings revealed that, among
banknotes, Rs 100 was the most preferred while Rs
2,000 was the least preferred denomination.
 Among coins, denomination of Rs 5 was the most
preferred whereas Rs 1 was the least preferred.
SBI IN NEWS
SBI Foundation partners with Khan Academy,
launches UpSchool, a digital learning platform
 SBI Foundation has introduced UpSchool, a digital
learning program for students from class 1-10 in
partnership with Khan Academy, an educational
non-profit.
 The program will be available in English, Hindi and
Kannada languages aiming to reduce learning gaps
and build a solid foundation in maths and reading
for their current academic year.
Ather Energy Partners with SBI for vehicle financing
Ather Energy, an electric two-wheeler manufacturer
based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, has partnered with the
State Bank of India(SBI) to offer vehicle financing for
its customers. This partnership will enable the customers
of Ather Energy, having pre-approved loan offers from
SBI, to get instant loans at low-interest rates starting
from 9.55% per annum.
SBI General Insurance launched a new health
vertical
SBI General Insurance has launched a new health
insurance vertical, through which the company plans to
focus on new innovative health products, and an in-
house claim settlement process, among others, to boost
customer experience.
SBI launches express credit on Yono platform
 State Bank of India (SBI) announced the
introduction of Real Time Xpress Credit on its
Yono platform, allowing eligible customers to get
personal loans of up to Rs 35 lakh.
 The bank said its flagship personal loan product for
salaried customers – Xpress Credit — now has a
digital avatar and customers can now avail of it
through Yono. This, it said, would be a 100%
paperless and digital experience and an end-to-end
eight step journey.
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HDFC Bank Signs MoU With 100X. VC To Support
Start-Ups
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 HDFC Bank has inked a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with 100X.VC, a leading
early-stage venture capital firm, to engage more
deeply with the start-up community.
 Under the MoU, HDFC Bank will extend its Smart-
Up initiative, which helps start-ups achieve their
goals by providing smart financial tools, smart
advisory services, and technology, to all the
companies associated with 100X.VC.
 About HDFC Bank Ltd (HDFC Bank): MD & CEO
– Sashidhar Jagdishan Establishment – 1994
Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra Tagline – We
Understand Your World
Equitas Small Finance Bank Launches Exclusive
Savings Account ENJOI for Kids
Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited announced the
launch of an exclusive savings account for kids, ‗ENJOI‘
with effect from 19th June 2022 to coincide with
Father‘s Day.
ENJOI will allow kids of 0-18 years to open savings
accounts under the supervision of their parents and also
minors aged 10 and above will get the option for a
personalised debit card.
Indian Bank launched digital renewal scheme for
KCC holders
 Indian Bank launched its KCC Digital Renewal
scheme, enabling eligible customers to renew their
Kisan Credit Card accounts via digital modes.
 The initiative is part of the bank‘s digital
transformation under project ‗WAVE‘ – World of
Advanced Virtual Experience.
Tamilnad Mercantile Bank gets SEBI‟s nod to float
IPO
 Private sector lender, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank
has received capital markets regulator Securities
and Exchange Board of India‘s (SEBI) to launch
and raise funds through an initial public offering
(IPO).
 Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Headquarters:
Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India;
HSBC India Announces USD 250 Million Lending
Support for Indian Start-Ups
 The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Limited, India (HSBC India), a retail banking and
financial services provider, has announced USD
250 million in lending support for high-growth,
technology-led start-ups in India, which has the
world‘s third largest start-up ecosystem.
 About Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited, India (HSBC India): CEO –
Hitendra Dave Headquarters – Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Millath Co-operative Bank‟s licence suspended by the
RBI
 Millath Co-operative Bank Ltd., Davangere,
Karnataka, had its licence suspended by the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI), resulting in a capital shortage.
As a result, the bank‘s banking operations will
come to an end at the end of the day.
 According to a press release from the RBI, the
Registrar of Cooperative Societies in Karnataka has
also been asked to issue an order winding up the
bank and appoint a liquidator.
Govt declares ICICI, HDFC, NPCI's IT resources as
critical information infra
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 The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has
declared the IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC
Bank and UPI managing entity NPCI as ‗critical
information infrastructure‘, implying any harm to
them can have an impact on national security and
any unauthorised person accessing these resources
may be jailed for up to 10 years.
 The IT resources under CII include Core Banking
Solution, Real Time Gross Settlement and National
Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT) comprising
Structured Financial Messaging Server.
Suryoday SFB and Mobisafar Services partnered to
provide banking services across India
 Suryoday Small Finance Bank, one of India‘s
premier small finance banks, has established a
cooperation with Mobisafar to provide banking
services across India through all of Mobisafar‘s
franchises and Business Correspondent network.
 The cooperation aims to increase financial inclusion
by providing vital banking services to underbanked
customers digitally, even in the most distant corners
of the country.
BFSL & Nainital Bank Launches Co-branded
Contactless RuPay Credit Card
BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL), a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Bank of Baroda(BoB) and Nainital
Bank launched BOB Financial and Nainital Bank co-
branded contactless RuPay Credit Card that is designed
to reward customers for everyday spend categories like
grocery and departmental stores.
ONDC partners with NABARD to activate e-
Commerce in Agriculture Domain
An Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), and
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) have joined hands to activate e-commerce
in the agriculture domain. It is one of the first initiatives
to drive ONDC enablement in the domain
Kotak Investment Advisors launches „Kotak Cherry‟
Kotak Investment Advisors Ltd, a subsidiary of Kotak
Mahindra Bank, has launched a curated tech-led
investment management platform, Kotak Cherry. It is a
one-stop solution for all investments and has a target to
onboard 10 lakh customers in a year.
DBS Bank India launches its first credit card in
partnership with Bajaj Finance
DBS Bank India announced the launch of its first-ever
credit card in India in partnership with Bajaj Finance
Limited, co-branded as ‗Bajaj Finserv DBS Bank
SuperCard‘, powered by Visa.
UPEIDA signs MoUs with PSBs to boost investment
in UP Defense Industrial Corridor
 Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development
Authority (UPEIDA) has signed MoUs with State
Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Baroda (BOB),
Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to boost
investment in the UP Defense Industrial Corridor.
 As per the agreement, the bank will provide
financial assistance in the form of ease of doing
business to investors in the UP Defense Industrial
Corridor.
Fino Payments Bank Partners with Go Digit for Shop
Insurance Policy
Fino Payments Bank Limited has collaborated with Go
Digit General Insurance Limited, one of India‘s fastest
growing general insurers, to provide small and medium
business owners with shop insurance coverage.
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ICICI Bank Partners with ZestMoney to Expand
„Cardless EMI‟ Facility
 ICICI Bank partnered with digital EMI/pay-later
platform ZestMoney, to expand its ‗Cardless EMI‘
facility for purchases on retail and e-commerce
platforms.
 Customers can convert transactions up to Rs. 10
lakh into Equated Money Instalments (EMIs).
 With this partnership, the bank‘s customers can use
pre-approved cardless credit to instantly buy
products/ services using ZestMoney and pay in
equated monthly instalments (EMIs).
RBI imposed Rs 59 lakh penalty on KEB Hana Bank
 Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs
59 lakh on the Korean bank, KEB Hana Bank for
non-compliance with the certain norms related to
‗interest rate on deposits.
 The Korean bank has been penalised for non-
compliance with the directions issued by RBI
on‖Reserve Bank of India (Interest Rate on
Deposits) Directions, 2016‖.
The statutory inspection for supervisory evaluation of
KEB Hana Bank was conducted by RBI with reference
to its financial position as on March 31, 2020.
Airtel Payments Bank partnered with Muthoot
Finance to offer gold loan
Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Muthoot
Finance to offer gold loans through Airtel Thanks app.
There will be no-processing charge on the loan. Muthoot
Finance will provide up to 75 per cent of the pledged
gold value as a loan. The loan facility will also be
available at the 5 lakh banking points for Airtel
Payments Bank.
Kiya.ai launches India‟s first banking metaverse
Kiyaverse
Kiya.ai, a digital solutions provider serving financial
institutions and governments globally, announced the
launch of India‘s first-ever banking metaverse
―Kiyaverse‖. In the first phase, Kiyaverse will allow
banks to extend their own metaverse for clients, partners,
and employees, through services that will include
Relationship Manager & Peer Avatars and Robo-
advisors.
IDFC First Bank Partnerd with CarTrade Tech to
offer financing solutions for used-cars
Multi-channel automobile buying and selling platform
CarTrade Tech Ltd has allied with IDFC First Bank to
offer easy and smart financing for used cars.CarWale
abSure is the used car platform of CarTrade Tech.
HDFC tied up with Accenture for digital
transformation
NBFC giant, HDFC has announced the collaboration
with global information technology services and
consulting firm, Accenture to digitally transform its
lending business. The tie-up will revamp HDFC‘s
customer experience and business processes to provide
greater operational agility and efficiency, and drive
business growth.
Fintech startup Mahagram partners with IndusInd
Bank to nurture digital payments
Rural NEO Bank Mahagram has tied up with the
IndusInd Bank to digitize the nation‘s payment
ecosystem and provide a wider scope to transact for its
customers in rural India. Mahagram was launched with a
vision to transform India into a digitally empowered
society and knowledge economy.
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Postal Department and India Post payments Bank
(IPPB) Aarohan 4.0 begins in Shimla
 Two days meeting of senior functionaries of the
Postal Department and India Post payments Bank
(IPPB), AAROHAN 4.0 started in Shimla,
Himachal Pradesh.
 Postal Department along with IPPB is working on
the vision of the Prime Minister‘s Digital India
initiative to promote digital payments and bring
digital banking services to every nook and corner of
the country in a customer-friendly manner.
HDFC Bank partners with Retailio to launch co-
branded credit cards
Private sector lender HDFC Bank and B2B pharma
marketplace Retailio have launched a new range of co-
branded credit cards.
India Post Payments Bank introduces issuer charges
for Aadhaar Enabled Payments
 The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has
announced that it has introduced issuer charges for
the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System(AePS).
These charges will come into effect from June 15,
2022. The India Post Payments Bank is a division
of Indian Post, which is administered by the
Department of Post.
 The first three AEPS transactions, such as AEPS
cash withdrawal, AEPS cash deposit, and AEPS
mini statement, will be free per month. Following
the free transactions, each transaction (cash
withdrawal or cash deposit) will cost Rs 20 plus
GST, while a ministatement transaction would cost
Rs 5 plus GST per transaction.
HDFC Securities launches Robo-Advisory platform
for MF investments
 HDFC Securities has launched HDFC Money, a
robo-advisory investment platform for all mutual
fund investments.
 HDFC Money is a 100 percent digital platform that
doesn‘t involve opening or having a Demat
Account.
UCO Bank signs Co-Lending Loan Agreement with
Paisalo Digital Limited
 UCO Bank signed a co-lending agreement with
NBFC Paisalo Digital Limited for agriculture
business to capitalize on the huge Rs 8 lakh crore
market of small-ticket loans for the 365 million
underbanked and under-serviced population.
 Co-lending is an emerging area in priority sector
financing and due focus is given by the Government
of India to help agriculture and other small
borrowers who are the backbone of the Indian
economy.
BRICS‟s New Development Bank (NDB) to Set up
India‟s Regional Office in GIFT City
The New Development Bank (NDB), the Shanghai-
based multilateral bank of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, South Africa), Development Bank would
set up a regional office in India at the Gujarat
International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gujarat,
India to cater to infrastructure and sustainable
development needs.
About NDB :
 Formally Opened : July 2015
 Headquarters : Shanghai, China
 President : Marcos Prado Troyjo
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BOB Financial and HPCL launch co-branded
contactless RuPay Credit Card
 HPCL and BOB co-branded contactless RuPay
Credit Card has been launched by BOB Financial
and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) in collaboration
with National Payments Corporation of India
(NPCI). The card has a number of advantages,
including incentives for utility, supermarket, and
department shop purchases.
 At HPCL petrol stations and on the HP Pay app,
cardholders of the HPCL and BOB RuPay
Contactless Credit Card can earn up to 24 reward
points (every Rs 150 spent).
 Additionally, cardholders will receive a 1% Fuel
Surcharge Waiver on fuel purchases made at HPCL
pumps or through HP Pay.
 Customers who spend Rs 5,000 or more within 60
days of receiving their card will receive an
additional 2,000 reward points.
AU Small Finance Bank introduces new services for
the affluent segment
 AU Small Finance Bank has launched two new
products under its affluent banking programme, AU
Royale – ‗AU Royale Salary‘ and ‗AU Royale
Business‘ current account.
 According to the bank, it had launched the Royale
programme designed to cater to the everyday
banking requirements of the affluent segment.
While the bank has been already offering
customized premium products for HNIs and NRIs,
now it has launched niche products, ‗AU Royale
Salary‘ and ‗AU Royale Business‘, specially
curated for the salaried and business class
respectively.
Japanese lender MUFG Bank to set up a branch in
GIFT City, sixth in India
 Japanese lender MUFG Bank will establish a
branch at the Gujarat International Financial Tec
City (GIFT City) in Ahmedabad for foreign
currency-denominated lending business. This will
be its sixth branch in India.
 MUFG can support its domestic as well as global
clients with an expanded suite of financial services.
At present it has presence in Mumbai, Delhi,
Bengaluru, Chennai and Neemrana.
Northern Arc Capital enters a strategic partnership
with Indian Bank
Northern Arc, one of India‘s diversified financial
services platforms, announced that it has entered a
strategic partnership with Indian Bank.
ECONOMY &
BUSINESS
PAN or Aadhaar mandatory for cash deposits or
withdrawals of Rs 20 lakh or more
 The Central Board of Direct Taxes has made new
rules, called the Income-tax (Fifteenth Amendment)
Rules, 2022, as per this, the government has made
quoting of PAN or Aadhar mandatory for cash
withdrawals/deposits amounting to Rs. 20 lakh or
more in a single financial year.
 The fresh guideline will also be applicable for the
opening of a current bank account or cash credit
account by a person with a banking company or a
cooperative bank or a post office.
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 Also, a person is required to apply for PAN at least
seven days before making any of the
aforementioned transactions.
As per the new rules, PAN or Aadhaar will be
compulsory in the following transactions:
 Cash deposit or deposits aggregating to Rs 20 lakh
or more in a financial year, in one or more accounts
of a person with a banking company or a co-
operative bank or a post office
 Cash withdrawal or withdrawals aggregating to Rs
20 lakh or more in a financial year, in one or more
accounts of a person with a banking company or a
co-operative bank or a post office
 Opening of a current account or cash credit account
by a person with a banking company or a co-
operative bank or a post office
 For authentication referred to in section 139A, the
permanent account number or Aadhaar number
along with demographic information or biometric
information of an individual shall be submitted to
the Principal Director General of Income-tax
(Systems) or Director General of Income-tax
(Systems) or the person authorized by the Principal
Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or
Director General of Income-tax (Systems) with the
approval of the Board.
CASHe has launched an industry-first credit line
service on WhatsApp
 Financial wellness platform, CASHe has launched
an industry-first credit line service using its AI-
powered chat capability on WhatsApp to provide
customers with a fast, seamless and convenient way
to access instant credit line by merely typing their
name.
 The firm offers an instant credit limit without the
need for any documents, app downloads or filling
up tedious application forms.
Adani Transmission's $700-mn revolving facility gets
'green loan' tag
 Adani Transmission Limited‘s, $700 million
revolving facility has been tagged as a ‗green loan‘
by Sustainalytics. This assures the green loan
framework for the revolving facility.
 Sustainalytics had issued the independent SPO on
the alignment of the reviewed framework with the
current market standards and the extent to which the
eligible project categories are credible and
impactful.
India‟s Merchandise Exports Likely to Be at USD
117.2 Billion In Q1 FY23
The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank) has
forecasted India‘s total merchandise exports to reach
USD 117.2 billion, growing at 22.7% in the first quarter
(Q1) of FY23.  As a result, India‘s overall merchandise
exports will continue to cross USD 100 billion for the
fourth consecutive quarter in a row.
India‘s overall exports (Merchandise and Services
combined) are estimated to reach USD 62.21 billion in
May 2022, an increase of 24.03 % over May 2021.
Four Indian Companies Join Apple, Google &
Amazon as World‟s Top 100 Brands
As per Kantar Brandz, 2022 ‗Most Valuable Global
Brands report‘, 4 Indian companies namely, Tata
Consultancy Service (TCS), HDFC Bank, Infosys and
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) were featured among
the top 100 global biggest brands. Apple retains its 1st
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position to become the first trillion-dollar brand with a
brand value of USD 947.1 billion followed by Google,
Amazon and Microsoft.
TCS jumped 12 positions to 46th position from 58th
position in 2021 for which brand value increased to 61
percent.
HDFC Bank‘s rank-61, Infosys-64, LIC-92
Burgundy Private Hurun India 500-SR: RIL becomes
India‟s most valuable company followed by TCS &
HDFC Bank
According to the Burgundy Private Hurun India 500
Special Report(SR), Reliance Industries Limited(RIL)
has become India‘s most valuable company with a value
of Rs 18.9 lakh crore followed by Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) with Rs 12.9 lakh crore and HDFC Bank
with Rs 7.7 lakh crore.
Burgundy Private, a private banking platform of Axis
Bank, and Hurun India launched ―Burgundy Private
Hurun India 500 Special Report(SR)‖ a 6-month update
(from 30th October 2021 to 30th April 2022) of the 2021
Burgundy Private Hurun India 500, a list of 500 most
valuable non-state-owned companies in India, released
in December 2021
Beneficiaries of the PFRDA pension scheme
increased by 24%
 According to official figures, the number of
subscribers to PFRDA‗s two flagship pension
schemes increased by more than 24% year on year
to 5.32 crore as of May 31, 2022.
 According to the Pension Fund Regulatory and
Development Authority (PFRDA), the number of
subscribers in various NPS plans climbed to 531.73
lakh by the end of May 2022, up from 428.56 lakh
in May 2021, a year-on-year rise of 24.07 percent.
 By the end of May this fiscal year, the Atal Pension
Yojana (APY), the largest contributor to the
subscriber base, had grown by 31.6 percent to 3.72
crore.
Dhan Sanchay: A new life insurance product from
LIC India
 The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has
introduced Dhan Sanchay, a non-linked, non-
participating individual savings life insurance plan
that offers both protection and savings.
 This plan provides financial support to the family if
the life assured dies prematurely during the policy‘s
term. According to a LIC press release, it also
provides a guaranteed income stream from the date
of maturity to the conclusion of the payout period.
 The first two alternatives require a minimum Sum
Assured of Rs.3,30,000/-, the third option requires a
minimum Sum Assured of Rs.2,50,000, and the
fourth option requires a minimum Sum Assured of
Rs.22,00,000
SEBI Advisory Committee on Mutual Funds
restructured
 SEBI, the market regulator, has revamped its
mutual fund advisory committee. According to the
latest update with the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI), the 25-member advisory
council will be chaired by Usha Thorat, a former
Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI). Previously, the panel consisted of 24 people.
 The committee‘s mission is to advise the Securities
and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on problems
relating to mutual fund regulation and development.
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Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman Launches EASE 5.0 Public
Sector Banks Common Reforms Agenda
 Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Ministry of
Finance (MoF) & Ministry of Corporate Affairs
(MoCA) unveiled the fifth edition of Enhanced
Access and Service Excellence – ‗EASE 5.0:
Enhanced digital experience; data-driven,
integrated, and inclusive banking‘, which provides
the Common Public Sector Banks (PSBs) Reforms
Agenda for fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23) under the
EASENext program.
 EASE 5.0 will emphasise increased digital
customer experience, data-driven, integrated, and
inclusive banking, with a focus on small enterprises
and agriculture.
ADIA to Invest Rs 2200 Crore in IIFL Home Finance
for 20% Stake
 A wholly-owned arm of Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority (ADIA) is set to invest Rs 2200 crore in
IIFL Home Finance Limited for 20% of its stake.
This will be one of the largest equity investments in
the affordable housing finance segment in India by
a financial investor.
 ADIA is a globally-diversified investment
institution that invests funds on behalf of the
Government of Abu Dhabi.
 IIFL Home Finance Limited(Established in 2006) is
a wholly-owned subsidiary of IIFL Finance Limited
(formerly known as IIFL Holdings Limited).
Eurozone interest rates set to rise for first time in 11
years
 The European Central Bank (ECB) has said it
intends to raise interest rates for the first time in
more than 11 years.
 The ECB said it would raise its key interest rates by
0.25% in July.
 The ECB's main policy interest rate is currently at -
0.50% and it could be back at zero or above by the
end of September, the bank said. The last time it
raised interest rates in the eurozone was in 2011.
OmniCard launches cash withdrawal facility across
all ATMs PAN India
 Payment solutions provider OmniCard became the
first Reserve Bank of India (RBI) licensed PPI
(prepaid instruments) to provide cash withdrawal
service using a RuPay-powered card from any
Automated Teller Machine (ATMs) throughout the
country.
 The move came in after RBI permitted the non-
bank licensed entities to enable cash withdrawals
from the digital wallet.
Tencent bought stake in Flipkart worth Rs 2,060
crore
 Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent has
bought stake worth USD 264 million (about Rs
2,060 crore) in Flipkart from its co-founder Binny
Bansal through its European subsidiary, according
to official documents.
 Singapore-headquartered e-commerce firm Flipkart
has operations in India only. Bansal holds around
1.84 per cent stake in Flipkart after selling part of
his stake to Tencent Cloud Europe BV.
Xpay. life launches India‟s 1st blockchain-enabled
UPI services targeting Rural areas
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Fintech startup XPay.Life launched India‘s first
blockchain-enabled transaction framework and launched
its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services targeted at
rural India, as it completes three years of operations.
CoinSwitch Launches Country's First Crypto Index
in Indian Rupees
Recently, India's largest crypto investing app
CoinSwitch has launched the country's first benchmark
index 'CRE8', which will track the performance of the
rupee-based crypto market.
IMF raised the weighting of the dollar and yuan in
the SDR basket
 The International Monetary Fund(IMF) has
increased the yuan‘s weighting in the Special
Drawing Rights(SDR) currency basket, prompting
the Chinese central bank to pledge to push for a
further opening of its financial markets.
 The IMF raised the yuan‘s weighting to 12.28
percent from 10.92 in its first regular review of the
SDR evaluation since the Chinese currency was
included in the basket in 2016.
 The weighting of the US dollar rose to 43.38
percent from 41.73 percent, while those of the euro
from 30.93 to 29.31, the Japanese yen from 8.33 to
7.59, and the British pound from 8.09 to 7.44
declined.
 The change will be effective Aug 1, 2022, and the
next review will be in 2027.
IMF :
 Headquarters: Washington, D.C., U.S, Membership:
190 countries (189 UN countries and Kosovo)
 Managing Director: Kristalina Georgieva
Govt releases Rs 86,912 cr to states, clears entire GST
compensation dues
 Ahead of the compensation regime for goods and
services tax (GST) that ends in June, the Centre has
released the entire compensation of Rs 86,912 crore
due to states.
 Of the Rs 86,912 crore released to states, Rs
47,617-crore compensation was due up to January,
Rs 21,322 crore was due for February-March, and
Rs 17,973 crore was due for April-May. Under the
compensation regime, the Centre is mandated to
compensate states until June 30 for any loss in
revenue under the GST. The government had
clarified earlier that the compensation period may
not be extended beyond the June-end deadline.
 To meet the shortfall in GST compensation to
states, the Centre said that it borrowed Rs 1.59
trillion in FY22 and Rs 1.1 trillion in FY21 from
the market and passed them on to the states. The
compensation cess will continue up to 2026. It will
be used to fund debt obligations.
Tata Aia Life Debuts Industry-first Smart Value
Income Plan
 Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Limited (Tata
AIA Life), a joint venture company established by
Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. and AIA Group Ltd. (AIA), has
launched a ‗Smart Value Income Plan‘, a non-
linked, participating life insurance savings plan
where the bonus can be adjusted against premium
payments.
 This plan includes first-in-industry features such as
the option to accumulate cash bonuses which will
earn rewards in the form of loyalty bonuses in the
sub wallet and favourable interest rates on loans for
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MSMEs and women entrepreneurs, as well as an
additional 1% concession on loan facilities for
women entrepreneurs. Individuals between the age
group of 1 and 65 can buy the Smart Value Income
Plan, with a maximum maturity age of 100
years.The policyholder may also be eligible for tax
advantages under Sections 80 C and 10 (10 D) of
the Income Tax Act of 1961.
Power Finance Corp lists 300-million euro green
bonds on Luxembourg Stock Exchange
 State-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has
announced that its maiden green bonds worth 300
million euros have been listed on the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange (LSE). RS Dhillon, PFC Chairman
and Managing Director (CMD) rang the bell during
the listing ceremony that was held in GIFT IFSC
Gujarat.
 This listing has been done under the cooperation
agreement that has been signed between LSE and
India INX.
What are Green Bonds?
 Green bonds are types of fixed-income instruments
that are used to raise money for environmental and
climate projects. These bonds are generally asset-
linked and are backed by the balance sheet of the
issuing entity, hence, they carry the same credit
rating as the other debt obligations of the issuer.
India's digital payments market will triple to $10
trillion by 2026
 India‘s digital payment market is expected to more
than triple to $10 trillion by 2026, according to the
latest study by digital payments firm PhonePe and
Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
 At present, the study said, 40% of all transactions in
India are digital, and payments worth $3 trillion
were processed by digital instruments in 2021. This
does not include payments made for financial
services, corporate business payments, and
government payments.
 India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) continues
to grow, clocking 5.95 billion transactions worth Rs
10.41 lakh crore last month.
„Har Time EMI on Time‟ is a financial education
initiative launched by Bajaj Finance
Bajaj Finance Limited, the lending arm of Bajaj Finserv
Limited, a global financial services conglomerate, has
launched Har Time EMI On Time, a digital campaign to
raise awareness about the importance and advantages of
good financial habits for a secure financial future.
Stashfin introduced #LiveBoundless, a credit line
card for women
 Stashfin is a neo banking platform which introduces
#LiveBoundless – a credit line card especially for
women. This card aims at giving women greater
financial freedom. It also offers cashback rewards,
welcome credits, Free ATM Withdrawals and deals.
 The card acts as a virtual and physical medium for
shopping, traveling, and eating and includes 1%
cashback on every spend to benefits worth Rs 5,000
in the first year, and a free credit period for select
customers.
Govt ratifies 8.1 % EPF interest rate for 2021-22
 The government has approved 8.1% of interest on
employees‘ provident fund (EPF) deposits for 2021-
22 — an over four-decade low — for about five
crore subscribers of retirement fund body EPFO.
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 the Employees‘ Provident Fund Organisation
(EPFO) had decided to lower the interest on
provident fund deposits for 2021-22 to 8.1 per cent
from 8.5 per cent provided in 2020-21
Paytm sets up a general insurance JV named Paytm
General Insurance Limited
 Digital financial services firm One97
Communications, which operates under the Paytm
brand, has formed a joint venture firm Paytm
General Insurance Limited (PGIL).
 Paytm has announced plans to infuse Rs 950 crore
in PGIL in tranches, for 10 years and to hold an
upfront equity stake of 74% in JV.
 With this Paytm General Insurance Limited will
become a subsidiary of Paytm.
Tata Capital unveils „loan against shares‟ facility
Tata Capital Ltd has launched a ‗Loan Against Shares‘
facility by which customers can avail of loans upto Rs 5
crores by pledging their Demat shares online.
LIC introduces Bima Ratna, a new savings plan
The largest insurer in India, LIC launched a non-linked,
non-participating, individual, savings life insurance plan
called Bima Ratna which offers a combination of
protection and savings. The new product was launched
to cater domestic market.
PSU banks double net profit to record Rs 66,500
crore in FY22
 Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have doubled their net
profit during the financial year 2021-22. The
combined profit of 12 state-owned banks stood at
Rs 66,539 crore during the financial year 2021-22, a
110 per cent increase from Rs 31,816 crore in the
financial year 2020-21.
 All 12 state-owned banks reported net profit for the
first time in many years. This was also a sharp
change from FY18 when only two out of 21 PSBs
reported profit. In FY21, only two PSBs reported
losses (Central Bank and Punjab & Sind Bank),
which dragged down the collective net profit.
 SBI‘s net profit was the highest at Rs 31,675 crore,
which is 55 per cent higher than the previous year.
After SBI, Bank of Baroda, with a net profit of Rs
7,272 crore, earned 10 per cent of PSBs‘ profits,
followed by Canara Bank, which stood at Rs 5,678
crore, which was 8 per cent of total net profit.
 Private banks registered a net profit of over Rs
91,000 crore, up 29 per cent from Rs 70,435 crore
in the previous year. Private banks were led by
HDFC Bank (Rs 36,961 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs
23,339 crore), Axis Bank (Rs 13,025 crore), Kotak
Mahindra Bank (Rs 8,572 crore), IndusInd Bank
(Rs 4,611 crore) and Federal Bank. 1889 crores)
Neobanking platform Stashfin introduces a credit
line card for women
 Stashfin, a neobanking platform, has launched a
credit line card especially for women called
LiveBoundless.
 The card offers dedicated cashback rewards,
welcome credits, free ATM withdrawals, and other
deals, the firm said. A host of other value-added
services include 1% cashback on every spend to
benefits worth Rs 5,000 in the first year, and a free
credit period for select customers
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Mou, merger and
tie up
DBS Bank India purchase 9.9% share in Svakarma
Finance
DBS Bank India Ltd. announced that it has purchased a
9.9% share in Svakarma Finance, a non-deposit taking,
non-banking finance company that provides micro
businesses with relevant financial solutions through a
combination of direct lending and co-lending.
BRICS PartNIR Innovation Centre Signs MoU with
NDB
 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South
Africa) Partnership on New Industrial Revolution
(PartNIR) Innovation Centre and the BRICS New
Development Bank (NDB) signed a Memorandum
Of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate bilateral
cooperation and promote the common development
of BRICS countries.
 The MoU was signed by Huang Wenhui, executive
vice chairman of the BRICS PartNIR Innovation
Center council, and Marcos Troyjo, president of the
NDB during a conference in Xiamen, East China‘s
Fujian Province.
 BRICS Chair – China (From January 2022)
President– Marcos Troyjo Establishment – July
2015 (Officially opened) Headquarters – Shanghai,
China
Pontaq signed MoU with TANSIM to Support
Startups
 Pontaq, a Cross Border Innovation Fund, has signed
a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tamil
Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission(TANSIM) –
StartupTN backed by Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) Department, Government of
Tamil Nadu(TN). Under this MoU, the government
of TN will help the Pontaq-supported companies to
expand their business operation in TN.
 Pontaq is an innovation fund which invest in early
stage technology businesses in the United
Kingdom(UK), India, the United States of
America(USA) and Canada.
Easy Home Finance partners with ICICI HFC to
Offer Home loans
Easy Home Finance Ltd (EASY), a tech-based mortgage
company, has partnered with ICICI Home Finance
Company Ltd. (ICICI HFC) have entered into a co-
lending partnership to disburse affordable home loans in
India.
HDFC ties up with Accenture for digital
transformation
HDFC, the housing finance major has collaborated with
Accenture to digitally transform its lending business.
The transformation exercise is aimed at making HDFC‘s
lending lifecycle paper-less and nimble.
Tata Motors Inks Pact For Potential Acquisition Of
Ford India‟s Plant In Gujarat
Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited (TPEML), a
subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd, and Ford India Private
Limited (FIPL) have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Gujarat
(GoG) for the potential acquisition of FIPL‘s Sanand
vehicle manufacturing facility.
CCEA clears sale of govt's 29.5% stake in Hindustan
Zinc valued at Rs 38,000 crore
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 Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
has approved the government‘s 29.5% stake sale in
Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL). The sale of a 29.58%
stake represents more than 124.96 crore shares
which would raise around Rs 38,000 crores at the
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, Adani
Defence Systems and Technologies Ltd., signed an
agreement to acquire a 50% stake in Bengaluru-based
General Aeronautics Pvt. Ltd

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current market price.
This decision will strengthen the government‘s
Ratting
World Bank cuts India GDP forecast to 7.5%
disinvestment drive in the current fiscal year. The
 The World Bank cut India's GDP growth forecast
government has budgeted 65,000 crores from PSU
for 2022-23 to 7.5% from the earlier estimate of
disinvestment and strategic sale.
8%.
Coal India Ltd to divest 25% stake in BCCL
 The RBI has also lowered its GDP growth forecast
India‘s largest coal producer, Coal India Limited (CIL),
to 7.2% for 2022-23 from the earlier estimate of
is planning to divest a 25 percent stake in its unlisted
7.8% due to the impact of geopolitical tensions and
arm Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), and will go for the
the impact on prices.
subsequent listing of the subsidiary on stock exchanges
after obtaining further clearances. OECD slashes India‟s GDP growth forecast to 6.9%
for FY23
UAE-based Emirates Telecom buys a 9.8% stake in
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Vodafone for $4.4 bn
Development (OECD) has forecast India‘s GDP growth
 Emirates Telecommunications Group Company
at 6.9 per cent for FY23. This is 120 basis points lower
PJSC ―e&‖ (Etisalat Group) has acquired
than the 8.1 per cent projection made in December.
approximately 2,766 million shares in Vodafone
State Bank of India revises up FY23 economic growth
Group Plc aggregating to $4.4 billion, these shares
forecast to 7.5%
represent 9.8% of Vodafone‘s issued share capital.
The SBI Research has projected the Indian economy to
 The transaction is in line with e&s ambition to be a grow at 7.5 percent in 2022-23, an upward revision of 20
global player in telecom and technology and to basis points from its earlier estimate.
increase its exposure to international markets. The real GDP will incrementally increase by Rs 11.1
Adani buys 50% stake in drone startup General lakh crore in FY23.
Aeronautics

COMMITTEE AND
IT'S HEAD divorce, adoption, inheritance and succession for all
SEBI Formed Building Advisory Committee headed citizens, irrespective of religion.
by B K Katyal
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), capital
markets regulator, has formed a Building Advisory
Committee to advise and assist on premises related
matters like planning, acquisition and furnishing.
This is a seven-member committee, headed by B K
Katyal, former Chief General Manager at Reserve Bank
of India (RBI)
SEBI imposed a penalty totalling Rs 10.80 crore on 7
entities, including Zenith Steel Pipes & Industries
(erstwhile Zenith Birla (India) Ltd and Yash Birla) in the
matter of irregularities in the global depository receipts
(GDR) issued by Zenith Birla.
Uttarakhand government constitutes panel to
implement Uniform Civil Code
 Uttarakhand government has announced the
formation of a 5-member drafting committee to
implement the much-debated Uniform Civil Code  This will also be an effective step toward Article 44
(UCC) in the state. The retired Supreme Court of the Constitution which talks about securing a
judge Ranjana Desai, who currently heads the UCC for every citizen of the country.
Delimitation Commission of India is the Head of IRDAI sets up committees through GIC to suggest
the committee. industry overhaul
 The UCC is referred to a common set of laws  The Insurance Regulatory and Development
governing personal matters such as marriage, Authority of India (IRDAI) has formed various
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(GIC) to suggest reforms in several areas of
general, reinsurance, and life insurance, including
regulation, product, and distribution, among others,
in order to overhaul the industry.
 The Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDAI) is a regulatory agency
that is responsible for regulating and licencing the
insurance and reinsurance businesses in India.
 It was established by the Insurance Regulatory and
Development Authority Act, 1999.
 Chairperson: Debasish Panda
Lovlina Borgohain Elected Chair of IBA Athletes
Committee
 Tokyo Bronze Medallist, Lovlina Borgohain was
elected as IBA‘s Athletes‘ Committee Chair.
International Boxing Association (IBA) announced
that Indian boxer and Tokyo Olympics Bronze
medallist Lovlina Borgohain has received the
highest number of votes during the election held at
the 2022 Women‘s World Championships and thus
has been elected as the chair and a voting member
on the Board of Directors for the IBA‘s Athletes‘
Committee.
 Further, Indian boxer Shiva Thapa has also been
elected as a member of the IBA Athletes Committee
following the election held during the 2021 IBA
Men‘s World Championships.
International Boxing Association:
 Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
 President: Umar Kremlyov
 Founded: 1946
Indian officer Anwar Hussain Shaik is new chair of
WTO committee
An Indian Government Officer, Anwar Hussain Shaik
has been made the chair of the World Trade
Organisation‘s Committee on Technical Barriers on
Trade. Mr. Shaik will take this role from Elisa Maria
Olmeda de Alejandro from Mexico.The Technical
Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement aims to ensure that
technical regulations, standards and conformity
assessment procedures are non-discriminatory and do not
create unnecessary obstacles to trade.
STATE & UT IN NEWS
First private „Bharat Gaurav‟ train starts from
Coimbatore-North to Sainagar, Shirdi
 India's first private train under ‗Bharat Gaurav‘
scheme has started from Coimbatore-North (Tamil
Nadu) to Sainagar Shirdi (Maharashtra). It was
flagged off by Gautam Srinivas,Mandal Manager,
Southern Rail Salem. This train is being operated
by private service provider.
 South Star Rail is a registered service provider
company operating trains on this route. The theme-
based Bharat Gaurav train aims to showcase the
rich cultural heritage and eminent historical places
of the country.
Bharat Gaurav Scheme
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SC appoints 3-member Committee to oversee the
functioning of AIFF:
 The Supreme Court has established a three-member
Committee of Administrators (CoA) chaired by
former Supreme Court judge AR Dave to oversee
the business of the All-India Football Federation
(AIFF) and the approval of its constitution in
accordance with the National Sports Code and
model guidelines.
 According to a panel of Justices DY Chandrachud,
Surya Kant, and PS Narasimha, the COA would
include two previous members — SY Qureshi,
former Chief Election Commissioner, and Bhaskar
Ganguly, former captain of the Indian Football
Team, in addition to Retired Justice Dave.
PM Modi headed Inter-State Council reconstituted;
Amit Shah Chairman of standing committee
 The Inter-State Council, which works to promote
and support cooperative federalism in the country,
has been reconstituted with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi as Chairman and Chief Ministers of
all States and six Union ministers as members.
 The government has also reconstituted the standing
committee of the Inter-State Council with Union
Home Minister Amit Shah as Chairman.
Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan appointed as
chairperson of Key WHO Panel
Union Health Secretary, Rajesh Bhushan has been
appointed as the chairperson of the Committee B at the
75th World Health Assembly (WHA). Committee B
primarily discusses administrative and financial matters
of the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year,
the World Health Assembly has a long and complex list
of health challenges and responses to review and the
Assembly functions through two committees — A and
B.
SEBI alters Risk Management Review Committee
 Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) has restructured its
committee, which reviews the risk management
framework for the cash and derivatives, including
commodity derivatives.
 The 14-member committee will be headed by IIM
Ahmedabad Professor JR Varma.
 Under this scheme launched in November 2021,
now a third section will be set up for tourism in
trains. Till now the railways had a passenger section
and a goods section.
Three-day International Literary Festival „Unmesha‟
begins in Shimla
The three-day International Literary Festival has started
in Himachal Pradesh at the historic Gaiety Theater in
Shimla.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
launched 'Sujal' scheme
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched
the 'Sujal' scheme for the state from his official residence
"Sant Kabir Kutir". This unique initiative of the state
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started in the direction of water management will prove
to be effective in the field of water conservation.
Amara Raja to open a green hydrogen fuel outlet for
NTPC in Leh
 In Leh, Ladakh, Amara Raja Power Systems will
build the country‘s first green hydrogen fueling
station for the National Thermal Power Corporation
(NTPC).
 the pilot project would create a minimum of 80 kg
of 99.97 percent pure hydrogen
each day, which will be
compressed, stored, and
delivered.
Delhi government collaborates with
the UNDP, builts oxygen production
facility
 The Delhi Government, in
collaboration with the
United Nations
Development Programme
(UNDP) India, has built
an oxygen producing
facility at G. B. Pant
Hospital in New
Delhi.
 The oxygen plant
produces about 1,000 litres of
oxygen per minute using
pressure swing adsorption (PSA)
technology. It will serve about
750 hospital beds, including
ventilator-assisted beds and
the Intensive Care Unit.
Elest To Set Up India‟s 1st
Display Fab worth Rs 24,000cr
in Hyderabad, Telangana
 a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) is inked between the
State Government of Telangana, and Karnataka-
based Elest, a subsidiary of gold retailer Rajesh
Exports, for India‘s first Display Fabrication (fab)
Unit that will be set up in Hyderabad, Telangana
with investments worth Rs 24,000 crore.
 Under this, a display fab facility i.e. ‗Generation 6
AMOLED Display FAB‘ will be set up by Elest,
with investments worth Rs 24,000 crore.
 AMOLED is an acronym for Active Matrix Organic
Light Emitting Diodes.
 It is one of the largest investments in India‘s
electronics sector and the largest ever investment by
size in Telangana.
Assam Partners with NLC India to Set up 1GW Solar
Power Project
 Assam Government is set to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with NLC India Ltd, the
public sector navaratna company to set up a first-of-
its-kind joint venture company (JVC) for generating
1 Giga Watt (GW) solar power with an investment
of 5000 crore.
PM Modi inaugurates Jagatguru Sreesant Tukaram
Maharaj Shila Mandir in Pune
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated
Jagatguru Sreesant Tukaram Maharaj Shila Mandir
at Dehu Village near Pune, dedicated to the 17th-
century seer.
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 Sant Tukaram was a Warkari saint and poet,
famously known for Abhanga devotional poetry and
community-oriented worship through spiritual
songs known as Kirtans. He lived in Dehu.
PM Modi inaugurates Jal Bhushan Building and
Gallery of Revolutionaries at Raj Bhawan in Mumbai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Jal
Bhushan Building at Raj Bhawan in Mumbai.The PM
also inaugurated an underground ‗Gallery of
Revolutionaries‘ museum dedicated to the luminaries of
the freedom struggle, at the Raj Bhavan.
Country's first dark sky reserve to be set up in
Ladakh's Hanle
A part of Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary in Hanle,
Ladakh is set to become India's first dark sky
reserve. It will be declared
as Hanle Dark Sky
Reserve (HDSR). The
site will promote
astronomy tourism while
promoting local tourism
through science.
Country's first Balika
Panchayat started in
Kutch, Gujarat
Taking a unique initiative towards
empowering women, the country's first
Balika Panchayat was started in Kutch, Gujarat.
The Ministry of Women and Child
Development has plans to
start Balika Panchayat in
the entire country soon.
This panchayat has been
started in Kunaria Maska
Motaginya Wadasar Kukma
village of Kutch district
of Gujarat. Its
responsibility is given to
the girl child in the age group of 11 to 21 years.
The Sarpanch of this Balika Panchayat is 20-year-old
Urmi Ahir.
Delhi airport introduces RFID-enabled tag to track
check-in luggage
In a first in India, the Indira Gandhi International Airport
in Delhi introduced radio-frequency identification
(RFID) enabled baggage tags which will give passengers
real-time information about the location of their luggage.
The RFID technology will be personalised and help
arriving passengers keep track of their check-in luggage.
i.The bag tags will be called ‗Bagg Trax‘, and It will not
only help domestic and international arrival passengers
but also those in transit to track their checked-in
baggage.
Tamil Nadu Launches Ennum Ezhuthum Scheme
 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has
launched the Ennum Ezhuthum scheme to bridge
the learning gap caused due to the corona pandemic
among students below the age of eight years. The
objective of this scheme is to ensure basic literacy
and numeracy by 2025.
 It was launched at an event at Azhinjivakkam
Panchayat Union Middle School, Tiruvallur. The
education department will distribute workbooks to
students of classes 1 to 3 to bridge the learning gap
and make assessments.
Mumbai Airport launched Vertical Axis Wind
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 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
(CSMIA), Mumbai has become India‘s 1st airport
to launch a one-of-its-kind Vertical Axis Wind
Turbine & Solar PV hybrid (Solar Mill) to explore
the possibility of utilization of wind energy at the
airport.
 With this, Mumbai will become the first city in
India to establish a one-of-its-kind hybrid power
project at its airport.
 This sustainable initiative undertaken by CSMIA
reduces dependence on conventional electricity
which propels its journey towards ‗Net Zero‘
emissions.
SPMCIL sets up Saifabad Mint Museum in
Hyderabad
 A coin exhibition, showcasing the history of coin-
making and collection at the Saifabad Mint
Museum in Hyderabad, Telangana was inaugurated
as part of ‗Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav‘ celebrations.
 The exhibition reflects about 120 years of the
history of the region as well as the nation. The
Saifabad Mint Museum has been set up by the
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
Ltd (SPMCIL) as part of ‗Azadi Ka Amrit
Mohostav‘ in a mint facility which was abandoned
in 1990s.
Israel & Haryana Government Sign Joint
Declaration on Water Cooperation
 The Government of Haryana and Israel have signed
a joint declaration on integrated water resources
management and capacity building. This marks a
significant event as India and Israel celebrate 30
years of diplomatic relations.
 The joint declaration was signed by Ambassador
Eynat Shlein, Israeli Ambassador to India and head
of Mashav, Israel‘s Agency for International
Development Cooperation at Israel‘s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the Irrigation and Water
Resources Department, Government of Haryana,
India.
Ambubachi Mela 2022 will be celebrated from June
22 to June 26.
 Ambubachi Mela is celebrated at the Kamakhya
temple in Assam in June.
 Kamakhya temple is located in Guwahati. It is a
Hindu temple dedicated to the mother goddess
Kamakhya. It is considered as one of the 51 Shakti
Peethas.
Maharashtra State Board for Wildlife (MSBWL)
approved 12 new conservation reserves and three
wildlife sanctuaries.
 For the wildlife conservation and environment
protection movement, 12 new conservation reserve
and three wildlife sanctuaries have been approved in
Maharashtra.
 These protected areas comprise almost 1,000 sq km
(around 692.74 sq km for conservation reserves and
303 sq km for wildlife sanctuaries).
 The 12 new conservation reserves are as follows:
Chivatibavari Kalwan, and
Raigad and Roha
and Alaldari in Muragad in
in Raigad district
Dhule Nashik
Dare Khurd
Masai plateau in
Bhor in Pune (Mahadare) in
Kolhapur
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Mogarkasa in Triambakeshwar Igatpuri in
Nagpur in Nashik Nashik
 Lonar wildlife sanctuary (0.8694 sq km),
Kolamarka in Gadchiroli (180.72 sq km) and
Muktai Bhawani in Jalgaon (122.74 sq km) are the
new wildlife sanctuaries.
 There are a total of 27 conservation reserves in
Maharashtra.
 According to the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, the
consent of the wildlife board is necessary before
notifying any Protection Area in the state.
Tamil Nadu launched Nalaya Thiran skilling
programme for college students
 The Tamil Nadu government recently launched
Naan Mudhalvan (I am the first). Under this
programme, Tamil Nadu government has now
launched Nalaya Thiran (Tomorrow‘s ability).
 In this programme, 50,000 college students will
train with the knowledge in computer science,
electronics and IT domains, skilling them on
problem solving using technologies.
Goa CM Launches „Beach Vigil App‟ for Holistic
Management of beaches
 The chief minister (CM) of Goa, Pramod Sawant
has launched a ‗Beach Vigil App‘, a collaboration
between Information Technology (IT) sector and
tourism sector that aims to benefit tourists and the
institutions working in the beach tourism sector in a
holistic management of beaches.
 Through the Beach Vigil App, the Drishti workers,
police and other stakeholders can raise issues for
safeguarding the interest of the tourist‘s.During the
launch, Goa IT and Tourism Minister Rohan
Khaunte was also present.
AP Govt launches YSR Yantra Seva Scheme
 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy has launched YSR Yantra Seva Scheme and
flagged off the distribution of tractors and combine
harvesters at Chuttugunta Centre in Guntur district.
 Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said
3,800 tractors and 320 combined harvesters would
be made available at Rythu Bharosa Centres
(RBKs) across the State.
 As part of the initiative, he credited a subsidy of Rs
175 crore into 5,260 farmer group bank accounts.
The State government is providing a 40 per cent
subsidy and providing loans for 50 per cent of the
machinery cost, and the remaining 10 percent can
be paid by the farmer‘s group.
Manipur Handloom & Handicrafts Development
Corporation signs MoU with Amazon
 Manipur Handloom & Handicrafts Development
Corporation (MHHDC) signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with e-market platform,
Amazon at Imphal. Now the finished handloom &
handicraft products of Manipur will be available on
Amazon.
 The representatives of the Manipur State
government and Amazon Sellers Private Ltd signed
the MoU at the opening function of Manipur
Heritage Expo, 2022 which was inaugurated by
Chief Minister N. Biren Singh.
Jio launches 4G mobile connectivity to Pangong Lake
in Ladakh
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Reliance Jio has started 4G voice and data services in
Spangmik village located on Pangong Lake in Ladakh.
Jio has become the first operator to provide 4G mobile
connectivity in the vicinity of Pangong Lake.
Pangong is a favorite destination of tourists in Ladakh.
'Kheer Bhavani Mela' organized in Jammu and
Kashmir
 the annual 'Kheer Bhavani Mela' has been
organized after two years in Tulmulla village of
Ganderbal district in the Union Territory of Jammu
and Kashmir, India.
 The festival is celebrated with lakhs of Hindu
pilgrims from across the country especially by the
Kashmiri Pandit community at the famous Ragnya
Devi Temple in Ganderbal district also known
locally as 'Mata Kheer Bhavani'.
Baikho festival celebrated in Assam
In the north-eastern state of Assam, people celebrate the
spring festival called 'Baikho festival'. It is mainly
celebrated in June every year.
Baikho is a spring festival, celebrated only to celebrate
the supremely powerful goddess of 'Baitho'.
Spices Board signed ToU with Flipkart to Enable
Market Access to Farmers
Spices Board, the flagship organization of the Ministry
of Commerce and Industry(MoCI), signed a Terms of
Understanding(ToU) with Flipkart to enhance market
access and support to promote farmers and grassroots
organisations working in the spices sector. The ToU was
signed at the Spices Board headquarters in Kochi,
Kerala.
J-K LG Launches Accidental Insurance Cover of Rs
15 Lakh for Govt Employees
 Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor
(LG) Manoj Sinha launched a people centric
‗Accidental insurance scheme‘ under which J&K
bank will extend free group personal insurance
cover of Rs 15 lakh for all government employees.
 The free Group Personal Insurance Cover is
extended to all the permanent employees of J&K
Government in addition to the offers that they are
entitled to on behalf of Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between J&K Bank and J&K
Government.
 J&K banks also launched the Phone Pe Loan
facility for government employees.
 The LG directed the J&K bank to enhance the
insurance amount from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 25 lakh
from the financial year 2022.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated
National Museum of Customs and GST- “Dharohar”
in Goa.
 ‗Dharohar‘, the National Museum of Customs and
GST, is housed in Panaji‘s famous Blue Building
on the banks of the Mandovi River.
 She also took part in the closing event of the Azadi
Ka Amrit Mahotsav Iconic Week celebration.
 The national museum will showcase not only the
artefacts seized by Indian Customs but will also
aware people of the basic Customs procedures.
Sufi festival organized in Srinagar, Jammu and
Kashmir
 'Sufi Festival' was organized at Sher-e-Kashmir
International Convention Center, Srinagar in
Jammu and Kashmir. The purpose of this festival,
organized by the Department of Tourism, is to
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propagate the messages of Sufi-Saints and Rishis of
the Kashmir Valley.
 This festival, organized in coordination with the
Department of Culture, Waqf Board, Khadi and
Village Industries Board, Museum and Archives
and Higher Education Department, was inaugurated
by the Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor, R.R.
Bhatnagar.
Kerala CM inaugurates cancer research centre in
Kochi
 Kerala Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan has
inaugurated a cancer diagnostics and research
centre here, which is slated to be the country‘s first
oncology laboratory for comprehensive cancer
diagnostic services.
 Karkinos Healthcare‘s advanced centre for cancer
diagnostics and research will serve as a central lab
for analysing specimens at molecular and genomic
levels to aid in personalised targeted therapy,
predicting possible response to treatment and
evaluate response by liquid biopsy.
Himachal Pradesh becomes the first state in the
country to formulate a drone policy
 Recently, the Himachal Pradesh cabinet has
approved 'Drone Policy-2022' and 'Logistics Policy-
2022'. Himachal Pradesh has become the first state
in the country to make a drone policy.
 A drone park will also be built, for which the place
will be searched. To buy drones, lakhs of farmers
and gardeners of the state will also be given a loan
of up to Rs 10 lakh on subsidy. Soon the
government will notify the detailed rules of this
policy.
Tamil Nadu CM unveils logo, mascot of 44th Chess
Olympiad
 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has
unveiled the logo and mascot for the 44th Chess
Olympiad. Stalin released the official logo and
mascot 'Thambi' (younger brother in Tamil).
 The mascot 'Thambi' is a knight dressed in
traditional Tamil attire Vesthi (Dhoti) and shirt
standing with folded hands. This mascot refers to
the Tamil greeting 'Vanakkam'. The word 'Chess
Believe' is written on its shirt.
 The 44th Chess Olympiad will be held in Chennai
this year after the hosting was taken away from
Russia. Chess Olympiad 2022 will be held in
Chennai from 28 July to 10 August, where around
2,000 players from more than 180 countries will
participate in the international competition.
North-West Delhi District Administration started
„Nanhi Pari‟ Program
 The 'Nanhi Pari' program was launched by the
North-West Delhi district administration on 10
June, 2022. The 'Nanhi Pari' program is a plan to
provide a one stop solution to the parents by
eliminating the need of going to different offices to
get the documents.
 The objective of this program is to fulfill essential
services like providing birth certificate, Aadhar card
registration and account opening in case of girls
born in government hospitals of the district before
discharge of mother and child from the hospital.
Kerala Launches 'Suraksha-Mitr Project' Vehicle
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 Recently the Kerala State Transport Ministry
launched a vehicle monitoring system named
'Suraksha-Mitr Project'. Suraksha-Mitr Project is a
vehicle monitoring system. It sends distress
message in case of any mishap.
 The Motor Vehicles Department of Kerala has
started this project under the Nirbhaya scheme. The
system will send a distress message to the mobile
phones of the owners in case of any untoward
incident happened during the journey.
 A Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD) will
be fitted with the vehicles. If the vehicle is involved
in an accident or if the driver over-speeds the
vehicle, the owners will receive an SMS alert from
the VLTD.
Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh top in GST
registrations
 Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh have topped in
Goods and Services Tax (GST) registrations by
businesses and dealers followed by Gujarat and
Tamil Nadu, reflecting that economic prowess of
these states.
 Official data from government on aggregate GST
registrations in the 2017-22 period showed that
Maharashtra has 1.48 million normal GST payers
who pay taxes on a monthly basis, while Uttar
Pradesh has 1.33 million such tax payers.
Amit Shah Lays Foundation For Rs 632 Crore Sports
Complex In Ahmedabad
 The Union Minister of Home Affairs and Minister
of Cooperation, Amit Shah laid the foundation
stone of an Olympic-level sports complex to be
constructed at the cost of Rs 632 crore in
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
 Located in the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad, the
world-class sports arena is spread across 18 acres
with facilities to play and train in numerous indoor
and outdoor activities, including swimming. Also, it
can simultaneously hold around 7,000 spectators.
Punjab govt launched e-stamp facility Instead Of
Paper Stamp
 Punjab govt. launched the ‗e-stamp facility to
abolish physical stamp papers to bring more
efficiency and check the pilferage of state revenue.
 The stamp paper of any denomination can now be
obtained via e-stamp (computerized print-out) from
any stamp vendor or banks authorized by the state
government.
 Earlier the e-stamping facility applied only to
values above Rs.20,000.
 This facility has been started with the help of the
Union government‘s National e-Governance
Services Ltd. (NeSL).
T.N. signed MoU with IPPB for pensioners‟ digital
life certificate
 The Tamil Nadu government signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) for obtaining life
certificates from pensioners through the doorstep
services of the Postal Department.
 As per the agreement, the IPPB would render the
doorstep services at a cost of Rs 70 per digital life
certificate.
Country‟s First Liquid Mirror Telescope Came Up in
Uttarakhand
AUGUST – 2022
 The first liquid mirror telescope in the country and
the largest in Asia – was commissioned atop
Devasthal, a hill in Uttarakhand.
 This will now keep a watch on the overhead sky to
identify transient or variable objects such as
supernovae, gravitational lenses, space debris, and
asteroids.
 It is located at an altitude of 2,450 metres at the
Devasthal Observatory campus of Aryabhatta
Research Institute of Observational Sciences
(ARIES), an autonomous institute under the
Department of Science and Technology (DST),
Government of India in Nainital district,
Uttarakhand.
 The Indian Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) will
help in surveying the sky, making it possible to
observe several galaxies and other astronomical
sources just by staring at the strip of sky that passes
overhead.
 Built by astronomers from India, Belgium and
Canada, the novel instrument employs a 4-meter-
diameter rotating mirror made up of a thin film of
liquid mercury to collect and focus light.
Delhi govt to name colonies & streets after
Babasaheb Ambedkar
 Following the Central government‘s guideline
advising against the usage of the word ‗Harijan‘,
the Delhi government is set to replace the word
‗Harijan‘ from names of colonies & streets and
name them after Babasaheb Ambedkar instead.
 In this vein, Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal
Gautam has tabled a proposal to rename all streets
and colonies under Delhi Government titled as
‗Harijan‘ after Dr Ambedkar.
Rajasthan‟s Special Health Care Abhiyan „Anchal‟
launched for pregnant women
 In Rajasthan, a Special Health Care Abhiyan
‗Anchal‘ has been launched in the Karauli district
for pregnant women. More than 13 thousand
women have benefited from this Abhiyan.
 This unique campaign was started on the initiative
of District Collector Ankit Kumar Singh to ensure
all necessary medical aid to pregnant women at the
pre and post-natal stage so that maternal and infant
mortality rates could be reduced.
Maharashtra government launched 'faceless RTOs'
to provide six online services.
 It will help citizens in availing services associated
with Regional Transport Offices.
 Under this initiative, driving licenses and several
other services will be provided without physical
presence.
 Six important RTO services will be provided online
including renewal, duplicate driving license, change
of address on a licence, duplicate RC book, change
of address on the RC book, and a no-objection
certificate of a licence to another state.
India's first private spacecraft manufacturing facility
launched in Bengaluru.
 Ananth Technologies Private Limited launched the
largest private spacecraft manufacturing facility in
India in Bengaluru.
 The spacecraft manufacturing unit was inaugurated
by Dr Somanath, Secretary, Department of Space
and Chairman, ISRO.
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 The facility is set up at Karnataka Industrial Areas
Development Board Aerospace Park.
Rajasthan CM introduced Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award in the State for Sportspersons
 Rajasthan Chief Minister(CM) Ashok Gehlot has
announced that the state government is set to
introduce the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award to
the State‘s sportspersons. He made the
announcement while addressing the inauguration
and player award ceremony at Sawai Mansingh
Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
 The CM inaugurated Rajasthan High-Performance
Sports and Rehabilitation Centre, Renovated
Synthetic Hockey Astro Turf and Badminton Indoor
Hall, Olympic and also awarded Para Olympic
medalists, Asian Games-2022 and Commonwealth
Games-2022 players. He also informed that Rajiv
Gandhi Rural Olympics will commence on 29th
August 2022 in which more than 27 lakh players of
all ages can participate. He also released the torch
of the Rural Olympic during the event.
President Kovind Inaugurates Sant Kabir Academy
And Research Centre in UP
President Ram Nath Kovind has paid tributes to Sant
Kabir and inaugurated Sant Kabir Academy and
Research Centre and Swadesh Darshan Yojana at Kabir
Chaura Dham, Maghar, Uttar Pradesh.
Tamil Nadu CM flags off luxury cruise liner
“Empress”
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin flagged off the
luxury cruise liner ―Empress‖ from Chennai port. The
eleven-storey tourist vessel can accommodate up to two
thousand passengers and about 800 crew members.
Andhra Pradesh CM Launches “ACB 14400” App
To File Corruption Complaints
 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan
Reddy launched the ACB ‗14400‘ app developed
by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), to register
corruption-related complaints against officials in
the state.
 The application can be downloaded from Google‘s
Play Store.
The “ACB 14400” application, once opened, will feature
two categories
 ―Live Report‖
 ―Lodge Complaint‖.
 In the ―Live Report‖ section, users can click
photographs, record audio or videos of live acts of
corruption using their mobile phones, and submit
complaints instantaneously.
 In the ―Lodge Complaint‖ section, users can
prepare a complaint by attaching existing
documents, photos, audio, or video files before
submitting it.
Lipstick plant found in Arunachal Pradesh after 100
years
 Recently, researchers of the Botanical Survey of
India (BSI) have discovered a rare plant after more
than a century in Anjou district of Arunachal
Pradesh. It is known as 'Indian lipstick plant'. This
plant was first discovered by the British botanist
Stephen Troyte Dunn in the year 1912.
 The discovery was based on plant samples collected
from Arunachal Pradesh by another English
botanist, Isaac Henry Burkill. It is known in botany
as 'Aeschynanthus monetaria dunn'.
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 Scientists had collected some specimens of
'Aeschynanthus' from Huiliang and Chipru in Anjou
district in December 2021 during flower studies in
Arunachal Pradesh.
 The International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) has placed these species in the 'endangered'
category.
World's First census for Fishing Cats conducted in
Chilika Lake
 Recently the world's first census for fishing cats in
Chilika Lake has been conducted by the Chilka
Development Authority in association with The
Fishing Cat Project (TFCP).
 According to this census, there are 176 fishing cats
in Chilka Lake. The Spatially Explicit Capture-
Recapture (SECR) method was used to analyze the
data.
 The Fishing Cat Project (TFCP), since 2010, is the
world's longest running research and conservation
project on fishing cats. Since 2017, TFCP is also
functioning in Odisha in collaboration with Odisha
Forest Department and Chilka Development
Authority (CDA).
 Chilka is the largest lagoon in Asia and the second
largest lagoon in the world.
 In 1981, Chilka Lake was designated the first
Indian wetland of international importance under
the Ramsar Convention.
Indore ranked first in the country in the ranking of
“Eat Right Challenge” Program
 Indore has ranked first in the country in recently
released ranking of 'Eat Right Challenge' program
by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI).
 Varanasi ranked second in the country. Bhopal is in
third place. The program was organized by the
Department of Food Safety and Drug
Administration. This program was executed as a
campaign from September 2020 to December 2021.
 After the announcement of this ranking, Indore will
be honored in Delhi on World Food Safety Day i.e.
7th June, which will include top 75 districts across
the country. This competition was organized to
maintain the quality of food across the country.
 Prior to this, 56 dukan, Sarafa Chowpatty in the city
have already got the status of clean street food hub
by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India, while the world famous Khajrana Ganesh
Temple was given the status of Safe BHOG Place
by FSSAI.
In Himachal Pradesh, Kangra Valley Summer
Festival resumes after a decade
 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur
has inaugurated the 'Kangra Valley Summer
Festival-2022' at Dharamshala Police Ground.
Executing from June 02 to June 09, 2022.
 Handicraft artisans and other local artists have got
an opportunity to showcase their talent through this
fair.
Blue Duke declared as the State Butterfly of Sikkim
Chief Minister P.S. Golay, during the World
Environment Day celebrations, declared Blue Duke as
the State Butterfly of Sikkim. The announcement was
made at Saramsa Garden near Ranipool during the event
organized by the Forest department.
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Maharashtra re-emerges as top sugar producer in
India
 After a five-year gap, Maharashtra has overtaken
Uttar Pradesh (UP) to regain its position as India‘s
top sugar producer.
 Maharashtra‘s output for the 2021-22 crushing year
(October-September) at 138 lakh tonnes (lt) & is an
all-time high, beating the previous 107.21 in 2018-
19.
The Gujarat government has signed a soil
conservation deal with Isha Outreach
 Gujarat‘s Climate Change Department has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
participate in the global ―Save Soil‖ program.
 A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in
Ahmedabad by Sadhguru, the Founder and Spiritual
Leader of Isha Outreach, and Gujarat Chief
Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel.
 Jaggi Sadguru has embarked on a 100-day
motorcycle journey around the world to raise
awareness about the soil regeneration initiative.
Two-day National Education Ministers‟ Conference
begins in Gandhinagar, Gujarat
 The National Education Ministers‘ Conference will
be held in Gujarat for two days.
 It will focus on the National Education Policy 2020
implementation, school skilling, and digital projects
such as the National Digital Education Architecture
and the National Educational Technology Forum,
among others.
NABARD Chairman launches My Pad My Right
programme in Leh
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development,
NABARD, Chairman Dr GR Chintala launched My Pad
My Right programme, in Leh, Ladakh.
Rajasthan becomes 1st state to create health accounts
in association with WHO
 Rajasthan is the first state in the country to
institutionalize health accounts which will help in
estimating the amount spent on the health sector
and its impact with the help of the World Health
Organization(WHO).
 The state began registration for Mukhyamantri
Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojana under which
each family in the state can claim up to Rs five lakh
a year for medical expenses.
Telangana Launches a Single-Pick Cotton Pilot
Project
The government of Telangana has launched a single-pick
cotton pilot project on 50,000 acres.
Nanjarayan Tank to become Tamil Nadu‟s 17th bird
sanctuary
 Tamil Nadu Minister for Forests K. Ramachandran
announced in the Assembly, that Nanjarayan Tank
in Tiruppur district is the 17th bird sanctuary of
Tamil Nadu.
 An initial amount of Rs 5 crores has been allocated
for the works.
 Also, Slender loris sanctuaries will be established in
Dindigul and Karur districts with Rs 5 crore.
Jharkhand To get WHO Award for Controlling
Tobacco Consumption
 The World Health Organization (WHO) has
selected Jharkhand for the World No Tobacco Day
(WNTD) Award-2022 in recognition of its efforts
to reduce tobacco consumption.
AUGUST – 2022
 Stata Tobacco Control Cell of the Health
Department will receive the award on the occasion
of World No Tobacco Day in Delhi on May 31,
2022.
Country‟s first rural tribal technical training in
Bhopal
 Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the
country‘s first rural tribal technical training in
Bhopal under the ‗Parliamentary Complex Project‘
for tribal youth.
 In the ‗Parliamentary Complex Project‘, technical
training will be imparted to rural tribal youth. This
training programme has been first started in
Madhya Pradesh as an experiment.
Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai launches health,
wellness app AAYU
 Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai
launched a new health and wellness app AAYU to
address and help heal chronic diseases and lifestyle
disorders through yoga and meditation.
 The app has been developed by Swami
Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-
VYASA) in partnership with RESET TECH, an AI-
driven integrated health-tech platform.
 The app will aim to address and help heal chronic
diseases and lifestyle disorders through right
approach to yoga and meditation.
Rajasthan adopts revised criteria for IG Shehri
Rozgar Guarantee Yojana
 New rules for the implementation of the Indira
Gandhi Shahari Rozgar Yojana have been accepted
by Rajasthan Chief Minister Shri Ashok Gehlot.
The scheme, modelled after the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Jobs Guarantee Act (MGNREGA),
was introduced by Gehlot in the 2022-23 budget to
create employment in metropolitan areas .
 Families living in urban areas will receive 100 days
of employment each year under the new urban
employment scheme. According to an official
release, the state government will invest Rs 800
crore each year on this ambitious plan.
 According to the new instructions, everyone
between the ages of 18 and 60 who live in the local
body area would be enrolled under the system using
their Jan Aadhaar cards.
North India's first biotech park inaugurated in J-K's
Kathua
 Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor,
Manoj Sinha and Union minister Jitendra Singh
inaugurated the north India‘s first Industrial Biotech
Park constructed at Ghatti near Kathua.
 With new biotech capabilities and innovation, J&K,
bestowed with more than 3500 medicinal plant
species, will be able to harness market advantages
in the most effective way and help the farmers to
generate more income, asserted the Lt Governor.
 The new Industrial Development Scheme has
enabled J&K to fetch investment of more than Rs
38,800 crore as of date, which also includes
proposals of 338 industrial units associated with the
biotech sector in some way or the other.
Bihar has India's largest gold reserves: Report
A survey by the Geological Survey of India has stated
that a gold reserve of around 222.88 million tonnes
including 27.6 tonnes of mineral-rich ore are present in
the Jamui district of Bihar.
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Adani Commissions India's First Wind-Solar Hybrid
Power Plant Of 390 MW In Rajasthan's Jaisalmer
 Adani Green subsidiary Adani Hybrid Energy
Jaisalmer One Limited has commissioned a 390
MW wind-solar hybrid power facility in Jaisalmer,
contributing significantly to India‘s green energy
effort. The plant will be India‘s first hybrid wind-
solar power producing facility.
 The new plant has a Power Purchase Agreement
(PPA) with the Solar Energy Corporation of India
(SECI), with a tariff of Rs. 2.69 per kWh, which is
significantly lower than the national Average Power
Procurement Cost (APPC), ensuring that everyone
has access to affordable, modern, and clean energy.
Delhi Customs launches Project „NIGAH‟ at ICD
Garhi Harsaru, Gurugram
 Chief Commissioner, Delhi Customs Zone, Surjit
Bhujabal inaugurated project ‗NIGAH‘ at ICD
Garhi Harsaru, Gurugram. ICTM (ICD Container
Tracking Module) has been developed in
collaboration with the Custodian M/s. GRFL. A live
demo of the project was given to all the
participants.
 Project NIGAH is an initiative to track container by
using ICTM (ICD Container Tracking Module)
which will help in better visibility of the container
movement inside the ICD. It will help Customs to
expedite long standing containers and monitor
timely clearances, thereby enhancing Ease of Doing
Business along with ensuring lead preventive
checks.
Jitendra Singh inaugurates India‟s first „Lavendar
Festival‟ in Bhaderwah
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has inaugurated the
country‘s first ‗Lavendar festival‘ at Jammu‘s
Bhaderwah where the cultivation of lavender has
transformed the economy of the mountainous area.
3rd Global Organic Expo 2022 starts in New Delhi
3rd Global Organic Expo 2022 is poised to be a major
platform for Organic Producers, Aggregators,
Processors, Value Chain Integrators, and the Industry
Partners by offering Global level conference, with an apt
theme ―Profitability for Humanity‖.
TN govt launches Integrated Agriculture
Development Project
 Chief Minister M.K. Stalin remotely launched the
Kalaignar‘s All Village Integrated Agriculture
Development Project in the districts of Krishnagiri,
Dharmapuri and Erode.
 The programme will be jointly implemented by the
State Agriculture Department in close coordination
with the Rural Development Department in all the
12,525 village panchayats across Tamil Nadu in a
period of five years.
Tripura adopts EV policy, to convert 10% of state‟s
vehicles to electric
 The new Tripura Cabinet headed by CM Manik
Saha has decided to adopt the Tripura Electric
Vehicle Policy 2022, to promote electric vehicles,
in an effort to cut down on environmental pollution
and uphold Tripura as an eco-friendly tourist
destination.
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 Aim :To convert 10 percent of Tripura‘s vehicles
i.e. 6,000 vehicles into Electric Vehicles out of
60,000 registered vehicles in the next 5 years.
Uttarakhand becomes the 1st Indian state to roll out
drone in healthcare
Redcliffe Labs, a unit of Redcliffe Lifetech in the U.S.,
has come up with its first commercial drone flight in the
country‘s healthcare sector. The company has recently
opened its commercial drone corridor between
Uttarkashi and Dehradun.
Uttarakhand Govt and BPCL inked MoU for
renewable energy projects
 Uttarakhand Govt and BPCL inked MoU for
renewable energy projects – Uttarakhand
government has signed an MoU with Bharat
Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).
 The MoU will help in the development of new and
renewable energy projects in the state.
4th edition of state-level Shirui Lily Festival 2022
begins in Manipur
In Manipur, the 4th Edition of State-Level Shirui Lily
Festival 2022 has begun. This annual festival is
organised by the Department of Tourism, Government of
Manipur in an aim to create and raise awareness on
Shirui Lily flower which is also the State Flower of
Manipur.
Maharashtra govt signs MoUs worth Rs 30,000 crore
at WEF
The Maharashtra government signed memorandum of
understanding (MoU) worth over Rs 30,000 crore during
the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum
(WEF) at Davos, Switzerland. As many as 23 MoUs
were signed for investment in sectors, including
pharmaceuticals, medical devices, information
technology, data centres, textiles, food processing,
packaging, paper and pulp, and steel.
India‟s First Olympic Values Education launched in
Odisha
 The Olympic Values Education Programme
(OVEP) of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC) was launched in Odisha by Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik, in collaboration with the Abhinav
Bindra Foundation Trust (ABFT).
 The OVEP is a practical set of resources aimed at
introducing young people to the Olympic values of
excellence, respect and friendship. It will be a
values-based curriculum, to be implemented
initially in 90 schools in Rourkela and
Bhubaneswar, catering to about 32,000 children.
Kolkata Becomes First Metro City To Get Its
Biodiversity Register
 Kolkata is the first metro city in the country to
prepare a detailed register of biodiversity. Kolkata
Municipal Corporation released the People‘s
Biodiversity Register (PBR), a document with
details about the floral and faunal varieties in the
city as well as its land use and human activities.
The document is prepared by the biodiversity
management committee (BMC) of the civic body
under the supervision of the state biodiversity board
and with help from NGOs. Chandigarh and Indore
are other important cities which have prepared the
document.
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NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Launches Several
Development Projects in Gujarat
 Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi inaugurated
and laid the foundation stone of various
development projects worth Rs 3,050 crores during
the ‗Gujarat Gaurav Abhiyan‘ at Khudvel, a tribal
region in Navsari district of Gujarat.
 The PM performed the Bhumi Pujan for 13 water
supply projects worth Rs. 961 crores for residents
of Tapi, Navsari, and Surat districts of Gujarat. under
 He also performed the Bhumi Pujan of a Medical this scheme will be called 'Agniveer'. This scheme will
College in Navsari district, which will assist deliver be implemented by the Department of Military Affairs.
affordable and quality medical treatment to the Key points of the Scheme
people of the region at a cost of around Rs. 542  Under ‗Agnipath‘ Recruitment Scheme the youth
crores. Inaugurations will join the army for a period of 04 years.
 The following projects have been inaugurated by  At the end of four years, about 75 per cent of the
the PM: soldiers will be relieved of duty and will receive
 The Madhuban dam based Astol regional water assistance from the armed forces for further
supply project,a water supply engineering marvel, employment opportunities.
built at the cost of about 586 crores
 ‗Nal Se Jal‘ projects worth Rs. 163 crores.The
residents of Surat, Navsari, Valsad, and Tapi
districts would benefit from these projects, which
will supply clean and sufficient drinking water.
 The VirpurVyara substation, built at a cost of over
Rs. 85 crores, to provide electricity to residents of
the Tapi district.
 To facilitate wastewater treatment, a sewage
treatment plant with a capacity of 14 Minimal
Liquid Discharge (MLD), worth Rs. 20 crores, for
Vapi city in the Valsad district.
 Government quarters built in Navsari at a cost of
over Rs 21 crores.
 Roads from Piplaidevi-Juner-Chichvihir-Pipaldahad
were laid, as were school buildings in Dang, at a
cost of about Rs 12 crore each.
Foundation Stones Laid
 The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for the
following projects: i. 8 water supply projects of Rs.
549 crores, to serve people of Surat, Navsari,
Valsad, and Tapi districts with safe drinking water.
 A wide road connecting Khergam and Pipalkhed
will be built in the Navsari district at a cost of Rs.
33 crores.  Only 25 percent of the soldiers will get a chance
 At a cost of about Rs. 27 crores, another four-lane even after four years.However, this will be possible
road will be built connecting Navsari and Bardoli only when army recruitments have come out at that
via Supa. iv.For the construction of the Zila time.
Panchayat Bhavan & the provision and installation  After leaving the job of four years, the youth will be
of a roller crash barrier in Dang, at a cost of about given a service fund package, which will be Rs
Rs. 28 crores & Rs. 10 crores, respectively. 11.71 lakhs.
 PM Narendra Modi has opened the AM Naik  Under the scheme, 46 thousand Agniveers will be
Healthcare Complex and Nirali Multi Specialty recruited this year.
Hospital in Navsari. He virtually inaugurated the  Enrollment will be on 'All India All Class' basis and
Kharel education complex. eligible age will be between 17.5 to 21 years.
Union Cabinet approves 'Agnipath' scheme for  The educational qualification of Agniveers for
recruitment of youth in Armed Forces enrollment in different categories will remain the
On 14 June, 2022, the Union Cabinet approved same.
'Agnipath', an attractive recruitment scheme for Indian
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 Agniveers will be provided with a non-contributory
life insurance cover of Rs 48 lakhs for their tenure
in the Indian Armed Forces.
The money deducted from the salary will be deposited in
the Agniveer Corpus Fund. The amount that will be
deducted from Agniveer's salary, the same amount will
be deposited by the government in Agniveer Corpus
Fund, which will be returned to Agniveer along with
interest after completing four years of service. This
amount will be around Rs 11.71 lakhs, which will be
available as a service fund package. The entire amount
will be tax free.
India approves MoA for setting up BIMSTEC
Technology Transfer Facility
Recently, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has approved a Memorandum of
Association (MoA) by India for setting up of 'BIMSTEC
Technology Transfer Facility' (TTF) in Colombo, Sri
Lanka. This was signed by the BIMSTEC member
countries at the fifth BIMSTEC summit held in
Colombo, Sri Lanka on 30 March, 2022.
UDAN celebrates 2022 as its 5th Anniversary Year
 A Central Government scheme of Ude Desh ka
Aam Naagrik (UDAN) i.e. let the country‘s typical
person fly, is celebrating its fifth anniversary in
2022. This first of its kind scheme, headed by the
Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), stimulates
Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) through a
market-based mechanism.
 The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is its
implementing agency.
 Launched in October 2016,The first UDAN flight
was launched by Prime Minister(PM) Narendra
Modi on 27th April 2017 from Jubbarhatti Airport,
Shimla to Delhi.
Gujarat: PM inaugurates the renovated Shree Kalika
Mata temple
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the
renovated Shree Kalika Mata temple at Pavagadh
Hill in Gujarat‘s Panchmahal district. At the temple,
he also conducted Puja with customary customs. A
‗Dhwaja‘ was raised at full mast atop the shrine by
Mr. Modi.
 The Prime Minister told the crowd that this temple
also represents Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka
Vishwas, and Sabka Prayas.
India's life expectancy rises to 69.7 year
 India's life expectancy at birth during the year 2015-
2019 has reached 69.7 as per the recently released
data by the Sample Registration System (SRS).
 However, India's life expectancy still remains
below the global average of 72.6 year.
 The highest life expectancy was recorded in the
capital of the country at 75.9 years and the lowest in
Chhattisgarh at 65.3 years.
 according to the UN‘s Human Development Report,
2019. Japan has the highest life expectancy of 85.
Norway, Australia, Switzerland and Iceland had a
life expectancy of 83. The Central African Republic
had the lowest life expectancy of 54 followed by
Lesotho and Chad at 55 in 2020.
 The difference between life expectancy at birth and
life expectancy at one year or five years is highest
in states such as Madhya Pradesh and Uttar
Pradesh, which have the highest infant mortality
rates. Life expectancy at birth has increased by 20
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years in India, from 49.7 in 1970-75 to 69.7 in
2015-2019.
 There is a significant difference in life expectancy
at birth in urban and rural areas as well as in states.
Himachal Pradesh had the highest life expectancy
of urban women at 82.3 years. Bihar and Jharkhand
are the only states where the life expectancy of men
is higher than that of women in both urban and rural
areas.
Cabinet Approves 5G Spectrum Auction
 The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the
Department of Telecommunications to auction 5G
spectrum in July.
 A total of 72 GHz (72,097.85 MHz) spectrum with
a validity period of 20 years will be auctioned on 26
July, 2022. The Department of Telecommunications
(DOT) has issued a notice inviting applications
from potential bidders in the auction.
 Along with this, the cabinet has also approved
setting up of 5G network by large technology
companies for their own use (captive).
 Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics
and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnav
said that by March 2023, India will start getting 5G
services, which will be 10 times faster than 4G.
Finance Minister launched NETRA Portal and
Mobile Application for IDEAS
 The Union Finance Minister also launched NETRA
(New e-Tracking and Remote Administration)
portal, and Mobile Application for India
Development and Economic Assistance Scheme
(IDEAS).
 NETRA has been developed for the efficient
management and monitoring of the LOC (Line of
Credit) and Concessional Finance Projects extended
by Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM). • The
platform will facilitate in the implementation cycle,
project monitoring and reporting by providing all
relevant information to the key Indian stakeholders
in an automated environment.
 Under IDEAS, EXIM Bank extends concessional
finance to low and middle-income countries for
sharing India‘s development experience by way of
infrastructure development, capacity building, trade
and skill transfer.
Railway Protection Force rescues 150 girls, women
under Operation Mahila Suraksha
During Operation Mahila Suraksha, the Railway
Protection Force (RPF), a security force under the Indian
Railways, has rescued 150 women, including many girls,
from becoming victims of human trafficking. • The pan-
India drive ―Operation Mahila Suraksha‖ was launched
from 3rd to 31st May 2022 which aims to ensure the safe
and secure travel of women over the Indian railways.
IISc Centre for Brain Research officially opened by
PM Modi
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the
Centre for Brain Research and lay the foundation
stone for Bagchi Parthasarathy Multispeciality
Hospital at IISc Bengaluru.
 The Centre for Brain Research is a one-of-a-kind
research centre dedicated to undertaking critical
research in order to develop evidence-based public
health treatments to treat age-related brain illnesses.
 The Bagchi Parthasarathy Multispeciality Hospital,
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campus of IISc Bengaluru, assisting in the
integration of science, engineering, and medicine at
the prominent institute.
Government has issued a list of single-use plastic
items banned from 1 July.
 The government has banned the use of single-use
plastic from 1 July 2022.
 The ban includes manufacturing, import, stocking,
distribution, sale and use of single-use plastic items.
 The government has also imposed a ban on sachets
using plastic material for storing, packing or selling
gutkha, tobacco and pan masala.
 The ban on single-use plastic items will be
monitored by the Central Pollution Control Board
(CPCB) at the national level while at the state level
it will be monitored by State Pollution Control
Boards (SPCBs).
 Bangladesh is the first country to ban thin plastic
bags.
One Nation, One Ration Card scheme has now
become operational throughout India with its
implementation in Assam.
 Assam has become the 36th State to implement this
scheme.
 The scheme is now successfully implemented in all
the 36 states and Union Territories throughout the
country.
 Within a short span of time, the scheme has covered
80 crore beneficiaries.
 MERA RATION mobile application was released
to make the scheme more seamless. This
application is available in 13 languages.
Central Government Launches Rashtriya Puruskar
Portal
 The Central Government has launched the
Rashtriya Puruskar Portal to make the nomination
process transparent and ensure public participation
in various awards of various Ministries,
Departments and Agencies. It has been developed
to bring all the awards together under a single
digital platform.
 The objective of the portal is to facilitate the
nomination of individuals and organizations for
various awards instituted by the government.
 The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement
that the portal for nomination and recommendation
of Padma Awards will remain open till September
15 this year. Nomination for Sardar Patel National
Unity Awards can be done till 31st of next month.
Indian Entrepreneur Gets World's First Digital
Vaccine Patent
 India's biomedical tech entrepreneur Bhargava Sri
Prakash has been granted the world's first patent
from the US Patent Office for a digital vaccine.
 Digital Vaccine is a platform that prevents real
world health issues through the metaverse. Digital
Vaccines seeks to induce positive human behavior
through neurocognitive training through
Smartphone, tablets and other such devices.
TDB under DST to Launch RS 1000 Crore Startup
Funder under PPP Model
The Technology Development Board (TDB), a statutory
body under the Department of Science and
Technology(DST), Ministry of Science and Technology
is set to launch a Rs 1000 crore fund under a Public-
Private Partnership(PPP) model.
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The fund will be launched in 2 phases:
In the 1st phase, a corpus of Rs 400 crore will be set up
and Rs 200 crores of this will be contributed by a private
limited company (yet to be named). In the 2nd phase,
TDB will partner with several companies to raise money
for the fund and invest an equal sum of money together
with the companies.
All „hyper-sensitive‟ airports need to install a
Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS) by
December 2023
 As per the circular provided by The Bureau of Civil
Aviation Security (BCAS), all ‗hyper-sensitive‘
airports need to install a Perimeter Intrusion
Detection Systems (PIDS) by December 2023,
which helps in alerting security agencies of any
intrusion through the boundary walls of the airport.
 Greenfield airports that are not part of the
government‘s Regional Connectivity Scheme
(RCS) will also install PIDS.
 The airports coming up under RCS will plan the
installation of PIDS at the development stage itself
for the purpose of obtaining clearance of design
stage security.
Minister of Education, Dharmendra Pradhan
launches Polyversity
 Michigan, USA-based IT Services & IT Consulting
company Information Data Systems (IDS) has
unveiled the Bharat Blockchain Network (BBN)
(Academic Blockchain Consortium) & Polyversity
(Educational Metaverse).
 Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministry of
Education (MoE), Government of India (GoI)
launched the initiatives in the presence of officials
from the All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE) at an event held at the AICTE Auditorium
in New Delhi.
 Polyversity is India‘s Largest Educational
Metaverse, with over 100 Academic Partners
establishing virtual campuses to make education
more accessible, immersive and meaningful. Land
parcels will be assigned to academic partners in
Polyversity.
PM Narendra Modi inaugurates IN-SPACe in
Ahmedabad
 The Indian National Center for Space Promotion
and Authorization (IN-SPACe) was established in
Ahmedabad by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, was also
present at the ceremony.
 After inaugurating the Indian National Space
Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) in
Ahmedabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
reviewed its headquarters.
 PM Modi had previously met his high school
teacher in Vadnagar, Gujarat‘s Navsari. In Navsari,
PM Modi also opened the AM Naik Healthcare
Complex and the Nirali multi-specialty hospital.
India‟s first ventilated cold storage for onion to be
established by WayCool.
WayCool is a Chennai based Startup and one of India‘s
leading agri-commerce platform.
WayCool has collaborated with Netherlands‘ Mooji
Agro to convert cold storage to ventilated cold storage in
order to preserve crops like potato, onion, etc.
India advances 20% ethanol-blending in petrol to
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India has advanced the target date for achieving 20%
ethanol-blending in petrol by five years to 2025.
 Ethanol extracted from sugarcane as well as
damaged food grains such as wheat and broken rice
and agriculture waste is less polluting and its use
also provides farmers with an alternate source of
income.
 Speaking at the release of ethanol blending road
map 2020-25 on the occasion of World
Environment Day, Mr. Modi said ―the target for
mixing 20% ethanol in petrol has been brought
forward from 2030 to 2025‖.
 Last year, the government had set a target of
reaching 10 per cent ethanol blending in petrol (10
per cent of ethanol mixed with 90% of petrol) by
2022 and 20% doping by 2030.
 Currently, about 8.5% ethanol is mixed with petrol
as against 1-1.5% in 2014, he said adding higher
blending has led to ethanol procurement jumping
from 38 crore litres to 320 crore litres.
 Last year, oil companies spent Rs 21,000 crore on
ethanol procurement.
 Earlier this week, the Oil Ministry had issued a
gazette notification mandating start of up to 20%
blending of ethanol in petrol from April 1, 2023.
All petrol sold in the country is targeted to have
20% ethanol by 2025.
 India is the world‘s third-biggest oil importer.
Sagarmala Young Professional Scheme for
engagement of Young Professionals in Ministry of
Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW)
 Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has
formulated scheme to engage talented, forward-
thinking and dynamic young professionals in
various divisions of the Ministry.
 This scheme focuses on active on-the-ground
learning for young professionals. The professionals
will have the opportunity to learn about the
functioning of the government as well as
developmental policy concerns. Professionals will
be required to deliver high-quality inputs in areas
such as infrastructure
 Initially, more than 25 young professionals will be
hired under this scheme. Professionals will be
required to have qualification in B.E/ B.Tech, B.
Planning and/or MBA or equivalent degree in
relevant subject/ field and minimum three year of
relevant work experience. Professionals in
Accountancy, Finance, Legal, Statistics,
Economics/Commerce, Data Analytics will also be
engaged based on requirement of the Ministry. The
initial period of engagement shall be 2 years which
can be extended to additional 2 years on the basis of
performance
Union Minister Shri Bhagwant Khuba launches
NSEFI‟s Pan-India Rooftop Solar Awareness
Campaign
 Shri Bhagwant Khuba, Minister of State for New
and Renewable Energy launched the Pan-India
Rooftop Solar Awareness Campaign in an event at
Bidar, Karnataka.
 The campaign titled ―GHAR KE UPAR SOLAR IS
SUPER‖ shall aim at mobilizing local government,
citizens, RWAs, and Municipalities to spread
awareness of Solar Rooftop. Shri Khuba spoke
about growth of RE sector in India.
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 Highlighting Panchamrit targets set by Modiji, Shri
Khuba said that ministry is working towards
achieving target of 500 GW of non-fossil by 2030.
He added that rooftop solar will play major role and
Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities offer maximum potential in
achieving this target. He said that Karnataka alone
has the potential of 1 GW rooftop solar.
Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia
Launches First National Air Sports Policy 2022
 Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has
launched the first ever 'National Air Sports Policy-
2022' (NASP 2022) in New Delhi. The objective of
this policy is to include India among the leading air
sports countries by the year 2030. Through this
policy, 11 air sports including aerobatics,
ballooning, gliding, parachuting,powered aircraft
and rotorcraft will be promoted.
Governing body
 Air sports in India will have a four-tier governance
structure, namely: Air Sports Federation of India
(ASFI) as the apex governing body. A national
association for individual air sports or a association
of air sports as appropriate.
 Regional (like West/South/North-East etc.) or State
and UT level units of National Air Sports
Federation, district level Air Sports Associations, as
appropriate.
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Launches CiSS Application
 Recently the National Commission for Protection of
Child Rights (NCPCR) has launched CiSS
Application. The full name of CiSS app is Children
in Street Situations.
 Its purpose is to assist in the process of
rehabilitation of street children. It will provide a
platform to various organizations, institutions etc. to
provide any assistance to the needy children.
 It is worth noting that this initiative has been started
under ―Bal Swaraj Portal‖.The CiSS app will be
used to collect data on street children from all states
and union territories and will be used to track their
rescue and rehabilitation process. This initiative has
been taken under the direction of the Supreme
Court of India.
Bal Swaraj Portal
 It was launched by NCPCR as an online and digital
real-time monitoring mechanism for children in
need of care and protection. This portal has two
functions - COVID Care and CiSS.
NHAI sets new Guinness World Record, 75 km long
highway built in 105 hours
 Recently the National Highways Authority of India
(NHAI) entered the Guinness World Records by
constructing a 75 km long bituminous concrete road
in a record 105 hours 33 minutes (about 5 days).
 This single lane project on NH-53 section between
Amravati and Akola in West Vidarbha of
Maharashtra was completed under Azadi Ka Amrit
Mahotsav.
 The National Highways Authority of India was
constituted under the National Highways Act of
India, 1988, with a view to develop, maintain and
manage National Highways.
Aviation ministry grants rights to GMR Group to
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 The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has granted
rights to the GMR Group to operate the Hyderabad
international airport for 30 more years.
 Till date, the GMR Group had the rights to operate
the Hyderabad airport till March 22, 2038. The
airport was inaugurated on March 23, 2008.
 GHIAL, a step-down subsidiary of GMR
Infrastructure Limited (GIL), has received a letter
of confirmation from the MoCA extending the term
of the concession agreement for operating the Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad for a
further period of 30 years - from March 23, 2038 up
to March 22, 2068
Arignar Anna Zoological Park Introduces Use of
Plastic Bottles in a Unique Way
 The Arignar Anna Zoological Park (Vandalur Zoo),
Chennai, Tamil Nadu has introduced a new method
to check the littering of plastic bottles inside its
premises.
 The state environment minister Shri V.
Meyyanathan and health minister Shri Ma.
Subramanian in Chennai distributed the traditional
cloth bags called ―Manchapai,‖ which means
‗yellow bags,‘ to promote the use of
environmentally friendly carry bags instead of
harmful plastic bags.
 The zoo officials organized a mass tree-planting
event involving 350 zoo employees with a slogan of
‗one person, one tree‘, to add to the green cover
inside the zoo premises.
 To encourage sustainable management practice, the
park has introduced fish culture in the existing
deep-water troughs.
PM Modi launches new series of coins with Azadi Ka
Amrit Mahotsav design
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a
special series of coins that are also ‗visually
impaired friendly‘.
 The coins of Re 1, Rs 2, 5, 10 and 20
denominations will have the Azadi Ka Amrit
Mahotsav (AKAM) design.
 They are not commemorative coins and will be part
of circulation. These new series of coins will
remind people of the goal of amrit kal and motivate
people to work towards the development of the
country.
India to introduce made in India TB infection skin
test called “c-TB”
 India will introduce a newly approved ―made in
India‖ TB infection skin test called ‗c-TB‘, said
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. This cost-
effective tool will be of immense benefit to other
high burden countries as well.
 A new initiative, ―Adopt people with TB‖ will be
launched this year, based on Indian values of
collectivism, which will call upon corporates,
industries, organisations, political parties and
individuals to come forward and adopt TB-infected
people and families and provide them with
nutritional and social support
C CAMP signs MoU with CFTRI to nurture
innovation in agriculture, food technology & allied
areas
 The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, C
CAMP has signed an MoU with the Centre for
Food Technological Research Institute, CFTRI to
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nurture deep science innovation in agriculture, food
technology and allied areas.
 It was inked by Dr.Taslimarif Saiyed, the CEO and
Director of C-CAMP and Dr. Sridevi Annapura
Singh, Director, CFTRI in Mysuru.
Centre approves extension of Prime Minister‟s
Employment Generation Programme for five years
 The government has approved continuation of the
Prime Minister‘s Employment Generation
Programme (PMEGP), over the 15th Finance
Commission Cycle for five years from 2021-22 to
2025-26. It has been appproved with an outlay of
around 13 thousand 554 crore rupees.
 The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) is implementing the
programme to facilitate generation of employment
opportunities for unemployed youth across the
country by assisting setting up of micro-enterprises
in non-farm sector.
PM inaugurates newly-built Matushri K.D.P.
Multispecialty Hospital at Atkot in Gujarat
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the
newly-built Matushri K.D.P. Multispecialty
Hospital, in Atkot, Rajkot.
 He will also inaugurate the Nano Urea (Liquid)
Plant constructed at IFFCO, Kalol at a cost of
around Rs 175 crores.The ultramodern Nano
Fertilizer Plant has been established keeping in
mind the increase in crop yield through the use of
Nano Urea. The Plant will produce about 1.5 lakh
bottles of 500 ml per day.
Government sets target to achieve 100 MT coal
gasification by 2030
The Government of India has set a target to increase coal
gasification to 100 million tonnes (MT) by 2030.
Rajnath Singh approves new Defence Estates Circle
in Uttarakhand
 Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved
the proposal for the creation of a new Defence
Estates Circle exclusively for Uttarakhand.
 In view of the difficulties faced in managing large
tracts of defence land in the state and the demand of
cantonment residents in Uttrakhand, the MoD will
establish an independent office of Defence Estates
at Dehradun and a sub-office at Ranikhet.
The government to launch Jan Samarth for delivery
of various schemes
 The government intends to launch Jan Samarth, a
unified platform for the delivery of multiple
initiatives administered by several ministries and
departments, in order to make life easier for the
average man. The new portal will initially enrol 15
credit-linked government initiatives, as part of the
Narendra Modi government‘s objective of
minimum government maximal governance.
Secretary, MoHUA launches Swachh Survekshan
2023 on the theme „Waste to Wealth‟ for Garbage
Free Cities
 Union Government of India has launched the
Eighth Edition of Swachh Survekshan – SS-2023
under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0. Secretary,
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Manoj Joshi
launched it at a virtual event in New Delhi.
Designed with the theme of ‗Waste to Wealth‘ as its
driving philosophy, Swachh Survekshan- 2023 is
curated towards achieving circularity in waste
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management. The survey would give priority to the
principle of 3 Rs- Reduce, Recycle and Reuse.
 Launch year: 2014 Launched by (prime minister):
Narendra Modi
The ABHA smartphone app has been improved by
the National Health Authority:
 The National Health Authority‘s Ayushman Bharat
Digital Mission has introduced a revamped
Ayushman Bharat Health Account, ABHA
smartphone application to handle health records.
 According to the Union Health Ministry, the ABHA
app, formerly known as the NDHM Health Records
app, is now available for download from the Google
Play Store
 Existing users of the ABHA app can also update to
the most recent version of the app.
 Users can create an ABHA address, which is a
simple username that can be linked to the 14-digit
ABHA number generated at random, using the
ABHA mobile application.
NAS 2021-State report card: Learning outcome levels
drop in higher grades
 The National Achievement Survey (NAS) report for
the 2021 edition has been released. NAS2021: One
of the largest surveys in the world, the National
Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 was conducted
on 12.11.2021 across the country, to identify the
learning gaps & to take remedial measures. The
NAS 2021 report cards for the national, state and
district levels have been made available at the
official website ―nas.gov.in.‖
 NAS 2021 conducted on November 12 last year
assessed over 34 lakh students in 1.18 lakh schools
at 720 districts across 36 states and Union
Territories.
 NAS assesses the health of the school education
system in the country by conducting a
comprehensive evaluation survey of children‘s
learning competencies at Classes 3, 5, 8 and 10 with
a cycle period of three years. It reflects the overall
assessment of the school education system. The last
NAS was held in 2017.
 NAS 2021 covered both central and state
government schools, government-aided schools and
private schools across the country.
 The survey was conducted in 22 languages in
Language, Mathematics and EVS for Class 3 and 5;
Language, Mathematics, Science and Social
Science for Class 8 and Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Science and English for Class 10.
President of India Inaugurates National Women
Legislators Conference-2022
 At the Legislative Assembly complex, President
Ram Nath Kovind will kick off the two-day
National Women Legislators‘ Conference-2022,
which is expected to draw a large number of female
parliamentarians and legislators from throughout
the country. The first-ever such event, hosted by the
state Assembly, is part of the nation-wide
celebrations scheduled under the Azadi Ka Amrit
Mahotsav‗ honouring India‘s 75th anniversary of
independence.
MeitY hosts Digital India BHASHINI brainstorming
session
 Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for
Electronics and Information Technology, Skill
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Development & Entrepreneurship, was present
during a brainstorming session organised by MeiTY
on Mission Digital India BHASHINI – the National
Language Translation Mission (NLTM).
 MSMEs, Startups, and Individual Innovators will
have access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources
through the Bhashini Platform.
 The goal of this mission is to empower Indian
citizens by linking them to the country‘s digital
initiatives in their local language, resulting in digital
inclusion. Bhashini is an interoperable platform that
will catalyse the entire Digital Ecosystem.
Realizing the goal of Digital Government is a huge
step forward.
Union Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar launched
'SHRESHTA Yojana'
 On 03 June, 2022, Social Justice and Empowerment
Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar have launched the
‗SHRESHTA‘ scheme. This scheme is known as
'Residential Education Scheme' for high school
students in the targeted areas.
 The 'Shreshta' scheme was formulated with the goal
of providing quality education and opportunities to
the students belonging to the Scheduled Caste
category.
Residential Education Scheme / SHRESHTA Yojana
Its basic objective is to uplift the socio-economic status
of the scheduled caste people by providing high quality
education to the children in the best private residential
schools of the country. Admission will be provided in
class 9 and class 11 of private schools affiliated to
CBSE.
Eligibility
 SC students who are studying in class 8th and 10th
in the current academic year (2021-22) are eligible
to avail the benefits of the scheme.
 In this, students belonging to the Scheduled Caste
community coming from the marginal income
group with an annual income of up to Rs 2.5 lakh
are eligible.
 The selection will be done through a transparent
mechanism known as National Entrance Test for
Excellence (NETS).
 It will be organized by the National Testing Agency
(NTA) for admission in class 9th and 11th.
Beneficiary
 The government aims that under this system around
3000 students of SC category will be admitted in
class 9 and class 11 every year. The ministry will
bear the entire cost of their education and
accommodation fee till they complete their class
12th education.
Scholarship per student annually
 For 9th class- Rs 1,00,000/- per annum
 For class 10th - Rs 1,10,000/- per annum
 For class 11th- Rs 1,25,000/- per annum
 For class 12th - RS 1,35,000/- per annum
The central government is planning to set up state-of-
the-art „PM Shri schools‟
 The central government is planning to set up state-
of-the-art ‗PM Shri schools‘ with the aim of
preparing students for the future and these schools
will act as the laboratory of the new National
Education Policy (NEP). The announcement of the
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Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan who was addressing
the two-day National Education Minister‘s
Conference in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
 The education minister spoke about the 5+3+3+4
approach of the NEP covering pre-school to
secondary while stressing on Early Childhood Care
and Education Programme (ECCE), teacher
training, adult education, integrating skill
development with school education, and prioritising
learning in one‘s mother tongue.
Govt raises premium for flagship insurance schemes
PMJJBY, PMSBY
 The government premium for its flagship insurance
schemes -- Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima
Yojana (PMJJBY) and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha
Bima Yojana (PMSBY) in order to make them
economically viable.
 The premium rate of PMJJBY has been revised
upward to Rs 1.25 per day, translating into an
increase from Rs 330 to Rs 436 annually.
 The annual premium for PMSBY has been hiked
from Rs 12 to Rs 20.
 The new premium rates are effective from June 1,
2022.
 In percentage terms, the premium increase is 32 per
cent in case of PMJJBY and 67 per cent for
PMSBY
 The number of active subscribers enrolled under
PMJJBY and PMSBY as on March 31, 2022 were
6.4 crore and 22 crore, respectively.
 Since the launch of the PMSBY, an amount of Rs
1,134 crore has been collected by the implementing
insurers towards premium and claims of Rs 2,513
crore have been paid as on March 31, 2022.
 Further, an amount of Rs 9,737 crore has been
collected by the implementing insurers towards
premium and claims of Rs 14,144 crore have been
paid under PMJJBY as on March 31, 2022.
PM Narendra Modi Unveils PM CARES for
Children Scheme
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released the
benefits of the PM CARES for Children scheme for
children who lost their parents due to the Covid-19
pandemic. PM Modi has promised Rs 4,000 a
month for basic needs, financial support for
schooling, scholarship for higher education, and
free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh.
 Prime Minister transferred scholarships to school-
going children. A passbook of PM CARES for
Children, and a health card under Ayushman Bharat
– Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana were handed
over to the children during the programme.
 The aim was to support children who have lost both
their parents or legal guardian or adoptive parents
or surviving parents to the Covid-19 pandemic,
during the period from 11 March 2020 to 28
February 2022.
 PM CARES for Children Scheme was launched by
the Prime Minister on 29 May 2021.
Skill India International Centre is to be established in
Varanasi to prepare a skilled workforce for global
markets
 A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was
signed between the National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC) and UAE‘s DP World for the
development of Skill India International Centre at
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in the presence of Union
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and UAE minister
Dr. Ahmad Belhoul in New Delhi.
 The centers will host training facilities, providing
skills as per the demand of international employers
in countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE),
Canada, Australia, and other GCC regions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the
program organized on 'Save Soil Movement '
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has participated in
the program organized on 'Save Soil Movement ' on
the occasion of World Environment Day on June
05, 2022 and addressed the people present in this
program organized at Vigyan Bhawan.
 'Save Soil Movement ' is a global movement to
raise awareness about the deteriorating health of
soil and to create a conscious responsibility to
improve it.
 The movement was started in March 2022 by Isha
Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who
embarked on a 100-day motorcycle journey through
27 countries. Today is the 75th day of the 100 day
journey. The Prime Minister's participation in the
program will serve to reflect shared concerns and
commitment towards improving soil health in India.
Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya opens national
food laboratory at Raxaul
 Union minister for health and family welfare
Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated national food
laboratory (NFL) constructed by the Food Safety
and Standard Authority of India at Raxaul on
Sunday. Earlier, food items were being tested at
Kolkata NFL, which is 700km away from Raxaul.
 NFL has been established under Indo-Nepal
bilateral agreement to reduce the time in testing of
imported food or fruit samples brought to Raxaul
from Nepal.
 Mandaviya also inaugurated a new sub-divisional
hospital at a cost of Rs16 crore by the state
government.
NCTE launches online portal to Simplify Process of
Teacher Education Programme
 The National Council for Teacher Education
(NCTE) has launched an online site to help higher
education institutions recognize teacher education
programs.
 This portal will be used to process applications for
the recently introduced four-year integrated teacher
education programs (ITEP).
Union Sports Minister Shri Anurag Thakur
Launched Nationwide Fit India Freedom Rider Cycle
Rally:
 Union Minister of Youth and Sports Shri Anurag
Thakur launched the ―National Cycling Race for
Indian Freestyle Cyclists‖ on World Cycling Day.
 Notably, World Bicycle Day is celebrated on June 3
every year to promote the use of bicycles and their
benefits.
 The World Health Organization (WHO) believes
that providing bicycles to the world‘s poorest
people and communities will help prevent 1.5
million premature deaths and 5 billion pounds of
greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Union Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar launched the
Scheme “SHRESHTA”
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 Union Minister of social Justice and empowerment
Dr. Virendra Kumar has launched the Scheme
―SHRESHTA‖-Scheme for residential education for
students in High school in Targeted Areas. The
Scheme for Residential Education for Students in
Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA) has been formulated
with the objective to provide quality education and
opportunities for even the poorest.
 Scheme for Residential Education for Students in
High Schools in Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA)
provides for high quality education for meritorious
but poor SC students in CBSE-affiliated reputed
residential schools across the country.
Tourism Ministry launches National Strategy for
Sustainable Tourism and Responsible Traveller
Campaign
Tourism Ministry has launched the National Strategy for
Sustainable Tourism and Responsible Traveller
Campaign. The Ministry, in partnership with the United
Environment Program and Responsible Tourism Society
of India (RTSOI) organized National Summit on
Developing Sustainable and Responsible Tourist
Destinations in New Delhi.
Tata Motors signed potential deal to acquire Ford
India plant in Gujarat
Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited (TPEML), a
subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd and Ford India Private
Limited (FIPL) has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Gujarat
(GoG) for the potential acquisition of the manufacturing
plant of Sanand‘s FIPL car.
President Inaugurated the Akhil Bhartiya Ayurved
Mahasammelan‟s 59th Maha Adhiveshan
Shri Ram Nath Kovind, President of India inaugurated
the 59th Maha Adhiveshan of Akhil Bhartiya Ayurved
Mahasammelan in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
Tata Projects won bid to build UP‟s Jewar Airport
Tata Projects will build the national capital region‘s new
airport at Jewar, after outbidding the Shapoorji Pallonji
Group and Larsen & Toubro for the contract. While the
deal size has not been disclosed, sources pegged it at
over Rs 6,000 crore.
Prime Minister Modi to deliver the 11th installment
of PM-KISAN benefits:
 Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi
(PM-KISAN) project, Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi will give the 11th tranche of financial benefits
of Rs 21,000 crore to over 10 million farmers in
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
 The 11th tranche of the Kisan Samman Nidhi
scheme, worth Rs 21,000 crores, will be released by
the PM.
 The PM-KISAN program provides qualifying
farmer families with a financial incentive of Rs
6,000 per year, payable in three equal installments
of Rs 2,000.
PM announces, The Union Ministry of Ayush has
„Yoga for Humanity‟ as the theme for the
International Day of Yoga, 2022
 The theme of the ninth International Day of Yoga,
which will be held on June 21 in India and around
the world, is ‗Yoga for Humanity‘.
 The eighth edition of the International Day of Yoga
will be organized on June 21, with the main event
being held in Mysuru, Karnataka.
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 This year‘s International Day of Yoga main event
will take place in Mysuru, Karnataka.
 The 8th edition of the International Day of Yoga
(IDY) will feature several firsts, one of which is an
innovative program called ―Guardian Ring,‖ in
which people practicing yoga will participate in
time with the sun‘s movement across the globe,
commencing in the east and marching west.
IIM-Ahmedabad launched Agri Land Price Index
(ALPI) for six states.
 It is India‘s first-of-its-kind land price index.
According to this Index, Agriculture land is most
expensive in Karnataka followed by Telangana. It
has been developed for 107 districts of Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil
Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
 The main aim of the Index is to remove the
uncertainty in the agricultural land valuation.
 It has been launched by IIM-Ahmedabad in
association with digital agri-land marketplace
SFarmsIndia.
E-Sanjeevani integrated successfully with Ayushman
Bharat Digital Mission.
 Telemedicine service 'eSanjeevani' has been
integrated with the NHA‘s Ayushman Bharat
Digital Mission (ABDM).
 The integration will help users of eSanjeevani to
easily create an Ayushman Bharat Health Account
(ABHA) and use it to manage their existing health
records.
PM Modi launched a global initiative 'Lifestyle for
the Environment (LiFE) Movement' on 5th June
2022.
 He said that the vision of LiFE is to live a lifestyle
that is in tune with our planet and does not harm it.
 The idea of LiFE was introduced by PM Modi at
the time of the 26th United Nations Climate Change
Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow last
year.
 The idea promotes an environmentally conscious
lifestyle that focuses on ‗mindful and deliberate
utilisation‘ instead of ‗mindless and wasteful
consumption‘.
 Author of Nudge Theory Prof. Cass Sunstein
participated in the programme.
 Prof. Cass Sunstein spoke about the EAST
framework of behaviour change.
 EAST stands for Easy, Attractive, Social and
Timely. He added a new letter ‗F‘ to the framework
to make it FEAST. F is for Fun.
Supreme Court directed protected forests, national
parks and wildlife sanctuaries to have an eco-
sensitive zone (ESZ) of at least 1 km.
 The Supreme Court said that governments had to be
proactive in preserving ecology and directed that
one km area around every protected forest, national
park or wildlife sanctuary be declared as ‗eco-
sensitive‘ zone where no mining, construction and
other projects will be allowed.
 This direction came from a three-judge Bench
comprising of Justices L. Nageswara Rao,
Aniruddha Bose and B.R. Gavai.
 As per the guidelines of the Environment Ministry,
eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) have to be created around
national parks, forests and sanctuaries as ―shock
absorbers‖.
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Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched the
„Clean and Green‟ campaign on World Environment
Day.
 The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs will
launch a ‗Clean and Green‘ campaign on World
Environment Day on Sunday. Under this campaign,
Urban Local Bodies across the country will hold
awareness programmes to free the country from
single-use plastic and contribute to improve the
environment.
 Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has
instructed to ban Single-Use Plastic by 30 June.
Rubber Board‟s electronic trading platform „mRube‟
to go live
 mRube, the electronic trading platform promoted by
Rubber Board will go live from June 8.
 The Ahmedabad-based i-Sourcing Technologies is
the technology partner. mRube follows a simple
one-time registration.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
India, Israel, UAE and USA formed new I2U2 group
 US President Joe Biden's administration as part of
efforts to revive and reactivate US alliances around
the world has formed a new group India, Israel, the
United Arab Emirates and US the 'I2U2' group.
 I2U2 stands for 'India, Israel, United States of
America and UAE'
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe
Biden, Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and
United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohamed
bin Zayed Al Nahyan will participate in the online
summit 'I2U2' to be held next month and discuss the
food security crisis and will discuss other areas of
cooperation.
Malaysian Government Abolishes Mandatory Death
Penalty
 Malaysia seems to be taking steps towards making
major reforms in its criminal justice system. The
Malaysian government has recently express consent
to abolish the mandatory death penalty and replace
it with other sentence at the discretion of the court.
 Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan, Pankaj Patel,
and Ravindra Dholakia appointed to RBI central
board
 The government has appointed industrialists Anand
Mahindra, Pankaj R Patel and Venu Srinivasan, and
former IIM (Ahmedabad) professor Ravindra H
Dholakia as non-official directors on the central
board of the Reserve Bank.
 The nominations have been made for four years by
the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC).
China launches third aircraft carrier 'Fujian'
 China launched its third aircraft carrier named
'Fujian' to expand its naval range in the Indo-Pacific
region. This aircraft carrier is the most advanced
and the first 'completely domestically built' naval
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 KN Raghavan, Executive Director will launch the
beta version of the electronic platform at a function
in the presence of the Rubber Producer Society and
other industry representatives
India‟s first 100 MLD desalination plant inaugurated
in Dahej, Gujarat
 Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on
Thursday inaugurated India‘s first 100 MLD
(million litres per day) capacity desalination plant
in Bharuch district.
 The seawater desalination plant in Dahej industrial
area has been set up by the Gujarat Industrial
Development Corporation (GIDC) with an
investment of Rs 881 crore
 The plant can desalinate 100 million litres of water
per day. It will supply water to the industries in the
area.
 Its construction work was awarded to the joint
venture company of Larsen & Toubro and Tecton.
aircraft carrier. It was launched in a brief ceremony
at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.
 This aircraft carrier is built by China State
Shipbuilding Corporation Limited.
WTO‟s 12th Ministerial Conference held in Geneva,
Switzerland; Co-hosted by Kazakhstan
 The World Trade Organization‘s (WTO) 12th
Ministerial Conference (MC12) was co-hosted by
Switzerland, and Kazakhstan at WTO headquarters
in Geneva, Switzerland after a gap of almost five
years from June 12-June 17, 2022. It was attended
by the Trade ministers of 164 nations.
 It was chaired by Timur Suleimenov, First Deputy
Chief of Staff of Kazakhstan‘s President.
 Kazakhstan was originally scheduled to host MC12
in June 2020 but the conference was postponed due
to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 The Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Ministry of
Commerce and Industry (MoCI) represented India
at the WTO‘s MC12 during the Thematic Session
on Agriculture.
Japan to participate in NATO summit for the first
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 Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida will attend
this month‘s NATO summit in Madrid, becoming
the country‘s first leader to join a top meeting of the
transatlantic alliance.
 The June 28-30 gathering is seen as a crunch
moment for the 30 North Atlantic Treaty
Organization allies, four months into Russia‘s war
in Ukraine.
 Japan, a key U.S. ally and not a NATO member,
has delivered defensive supplies to Ukraine and
imposed tough sanctions on Russia in tandem with
the other Group of Seven countries.
NATO Formation: 4 April 1949; NATO Headquarters:
Brussels, Belgium;
NATO Secretary General: Jens Stoltenberg; NATO
Total Member: 30;
EU Recommends Candidate Status for Ukraine &
Moldova
 The European Commission has made a historic step
in recommending that Ukraine and Moldova be
granted European Union (EU) candidate status,
paving the way for them to progress from former
Soviet republics to developed economies in the
world‘s largest trade bloc, the EU.
 European Commission President Ursula von der
Leyen announced the recommendation.
China will set up a solar power plant in space in the
year 2028
 Recently China has presented a plan to start a solar
power plant in space in the year 2028 to get
continuous electricity. Earlier, China's plan was to
set up a solar power station of 1 MW capacity in
space by 2030, although according to the updated
plan, China will launch a satellite in the year 2028.
European Parliament votes to ban the sale of new
petrol and diesel cars by 2035
The European Parliament approved a proposal made by
the European Commission in 2021 to ban the sale of new
petrol and diesel cars by 2035 to fight against climate
change through the faster development of electric
vehicles.
8th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians
hosted in Egypt
 The Eighth Global Conference of Young
Parliamentarians has been started in Sharm El
Sheikh, Egypt to address climate change. The two-
day conference is being jointly organized by the
House of Representatives and the Inter-
Parliamentary Union (IPU).
 Nagaland‘s first woman elected as Member of
Parliament to Rajya Sabha, S. Phangon Konyak is
representing India at the Conference. She, along
with two other young Lok Sabha MPs from India,
will be sharing her thoughts on the ‗Young MPs for
Climate Actions‘.
World's largest freshwater fish has been caught in
Cambodia.
 Cambodian villagers have caught the world's
biggest freshwater fish in the Mekong River.
 It is a big stingray fish, weighing 300kg (661lb). It
is 3.98m long and 2.2m wide.
 The previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg)
Mekong giant catfish was caught in Thailand in
2005.
Global plastic waste set to almost triple by 2060, says
OECD
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 The global usage of plastic is set to increase by
three fold by the year 2060, according to the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) report released.
 The world that is wrecked by severe plastic
pollution, has taken up several measures to combat
the the use of plastic and improve efficiencies is in
turn about to witness the plastic usage get double in
almost less than 40 years.
 Annual production of fossil-fuel-based plastics are
set to top 1.2 billion tonnes by 2060 and waste to
exceed one billion tonnes, according to OECD.
 However, experts have alerted that globally
coordinated policies could hugely boost the share of
future plastic waste that is recycled, from 12 to
40%.
BIMSTEC celebrated its 25th foundation day in
Dhaka.
 The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
acts as a bridge of friendship between South and
South-East Asian countries.
 The 25th Founding Day of BIMSTEC was
celebrated in Dhaka on 6 June.
BIMSTEC:
 It is an international organization of South Asia and
Southeast Asian countries.
 Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri
Lanka, and Thailand are members of BIMSTEC.
 It was formed on 6 June 1997 and its headquarters
is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
UN to grant humanitarian assistance of $48 million to
Sri Lanka amid crisis
 United Nations has planned to provide humanitarian
assistance of around $48 million over a four-month
period to Sri Lanka. New Delhi‘s financial
assistance worth over $3 billion since January to
provide essential items, including food, fuel,
cooking gas and medicines.
 Sri Lanka needs $6 billion to keep the country
afloat for the next six months, adding that $5 billion
is required to ensure day-to-day living and another
$1 billion to strengthen the Sri Lankan rupee.
World Summit on Information Society 2022 was
organized in Geneva
 Union Minister of State for Communications,
Devusinh Chouhan attended the function of the
World Summit on Information Society (WSIS)
2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, where India
showcased its telecommunication prowess across
multilateral and bilateral interactions.
 The summit concluded with India's re-election as
the President of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council for the
year 2023-2026. India has been a member of the
ITU since 1869 and has been actively participating
in the affairs and activities of the Union.
 The Global Summit on Information Society Forum
2022 'ICT for Development' represents the world's
largest annual gathering of the community.The
forum provides structured opportunities framing
network, learn and participate in multi-stakeholder
discussions and consultations on the
implementation of WSIS.
UNGA adopts India Sponsored Multilingualism
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 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
adopted a resolution on multilingualism, co-
sponsored by India, that mentioned the Hindi
language for the first time. The resolution also
mentions Bangla and Urdu for the first time.
 The resolution encourages the United Nations(UN)
to continue to spread awareness about the
importance of communications and messages in
official as well as non-official languages such as
Portuguese,Kiswahili,Hindi, Persian, Bangla, and
Urdu, in addition to official languages, in order to
promote multilingualism.
 Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and
Spanish are the six official languages of the United
Nations; English and French being the working
languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
 India‘s Permanent Representative to the United
Nations is T. S. Tirumurti.
Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland
Elected to Serve as Non-Permanent Members On
UNSC
 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
elected Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, and
Switzerland to serve as non-permanent members of
the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a
two-year term beginning January 01, 2023.
 The newly elected countries will replace India,
Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, and Norway, which will
vacate their seats at the end of 2022.
 Total of 15 countries make up the United Nations
Security Council. China, France, Russia, the United
Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US) are the
five permanent members (Permanent Five (P5)
members), with veto power.
China releases New Comprehensive Geologic Map of
the Moon
 World‘s ‗Most Detailed to date‘ Map of Moon
China has released a new comprehensive geologic
map of the moon. This is the world‘s ―most detailed
to date‖ map of the moon. The new map of scale
1:2,500,000 was published by Science Bulletin.
 This project was led by the Institute of
Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
along with the Chinese Academy of Geological
Science, China University of Geosciences and
Shandong University.
Britain‟s Queen becomes the world‟s second-longest
reigning monarch
 Britain‘s Queen Elizabeth II overtook Thailand‘s
King to become the world‘s second-longest
reigning monarch in history, after France‘s Louis
XIV.
 The UK has been celebrating the 96-year-old
Queen‘s Platinum Jubilee to mark 70 years of
service to the nation with grand events.
 Crowned in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II became the
longest-serving British monarch in September 2015,
surpassing her great-great grandmother Queen
Victoria.
 Now she has overtaken Thailand‘s King Bhumibol
Adulyadej, who reigned for 70 years and 126 days
between 1927 and 2016, to set another record.
Louis XIV of France remains the longest-reigning
monarch, with a 72-year and 110-day reign from
1643 until 1715.
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New York State Legislature Passes World's First
„Right to Repair‟ Law for Digital
 The New York state Legislature of the United
States of America has passed the world's first right-
to-repair law for digital electronics.
 A "right to repair" bill would be required by digital
electronics manufacturers to make parts, equipment,
information and software available to customers
and independent repair businesses. Following
pressure from the government to protect the rights
of customers to repair and refurbish their purchased
products, the "Fair Repair Act" was enacted.
Thailand becomes first Asian country to legalize
cannabis
 Keeping and cultivating Hemp/Cannabis/Marijuana
in Thailand will no longer be considered as a crime
because recently the government there has declared
it legal.
 However, its use in the form of smoking in public is
still prohibited. Thailand, located in Southeast Asia,
which is known for its strict narcotics/drug laws,
has become the first country in Asia to take such a
step.
19th Shangri-La Dialogue organized in Singapore
 The 19th Shangri-La Dialogue has been organized
in Singapore from 10 June to 12 June, 2022. Heads
of states, ministers, military commanders and
scholars from about 40 countries of the Indo-Pacific
region participated in this annual conference. The
Indian side was represented by Vice Admiral
Biswajit Dasgupta, Commanding-in-Chief of the
Eastern Command of the Navy.
 The 19th Shangri-La Dialogue organized by the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
was organized in Singapore, after two years of the
Covid-19 pandemic.
UN approved Turkey‟s request to change name to
Turkiye
The United Nations has changed the Republic of
Turkey‘s country name at the organisation from
―Turkey‖ to ―Türkiye‖, following a request from Ankara
for the change. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric had
been received from the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu addressed to Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres, requesting the use of ―Türkiye‖ instead of
―Turkey‖ for all affairs.
World Bank to Disburse USD 700 Million to Crisis-
hit Sri Lanka: Report
The World Bank is planning to disburse USD 700
million to crisis-ridden Sri Lanka by re-purposing its
existing loans, a move that will help the island nation
grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis much-
needed breathing space till a bailout package with the
IMF is worked out.
New law introduced in Canada aims to „freeze‟
handgun ownership
 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has
unveiled new legislation that would implement
―some of the harshest gun control measures‖ in
decades, including a ―freeze‖ on the country‘s
handgun purchases and sales.
 Trudeau cited a succession of mass shootings in
Canada over the years, as well as recent assaults in
the United States, as part of his government‘s
motivation to propose Bill C-21 during a press
conference in Ottawa.
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 The AR-15 weapon, which was used by a shooter to
murder 26 adults and children in the Sandy Hook
tragedy in the United States in 2012, and the Ruger
Mini-14 rifle, which was used by a gunman to
murder 14 women at a Montreal engineering school
in 1989, were among those banned.
US Frontier Overtakes Japan‟s Fugaku As World‟s
Most Powerful Supercomputer
 According to the 59th edition of the Top500 list of
the world‘s most powerful supercomputers unveiled
by Germany, ORNL‘s Supercomputer Frontier from
the US, a supercomputer built using Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE) architecture and
equipped with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
processors, outperformed Japan‘s Supercomputer
Fugaku to become the world‘s fastest
supercomputer.
 The supercomputer – Frontier, which was built for
the US Department of Energy‘s Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL), has broken the exascale speed
barrier with a Linmark benchmark score of 1.1
exaflops, making it the world‘s first supercomputer
to do so. Whereas, 1 exaflop is equivalent to 1,000
petaflops.
 Frontier‘s nearest competitor, Fugaku, has a
performance score of 442 petaflops on the Linpack
benchmark, a standard for officially ranking global,
publicly disclosed supercomputers. While Fugaku
was based on Arm‘s core designs, US‘s Frontier is
powered by AMD.
China successfully launched the 3rd Crewed Mission
to its New Space Station
 China successfully launched the 3rd Crewed
Mission to its New Space Station.Three Astronauts
will continue the construction work for six
months.Astronauts were lifted off on Shenzhou-14
spacecraft.
 It was launched by a Long March 2F rocket from
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, located in Gobi
Desert of Inner Mongolia.
 The crew includes Chen Dong, Cau Xuzhe and Liu
Yang.
 They will live and work at Tianhe core module of
Tiangong Space Station for six months. They are
scheduled to return to Earth in December 2022.
They will dock with the space station about 6.5
hours after launch.
 China has planned to have fully crewed and
operational space station by December 2022.
First Commercial Flight from Yemen to Egypt
 The first commercial flight from Sanaa Airport,
Yemen to Cairo, Egypt has been welcomed by the
United Nations. The first commercial flight
between both took off on 1st June 2022. This was
the seventh flight that was operated under the terms
that were brokered by the United Nations for two
months of nationwide truce.
Stockholm+50 Conference
 The Scientists, researchers and activists from across
the world gathered in Stockholm. They were
expected to issue a strong resolution for to phase
out fossil fuels as well as to support developing
nations in their transition to clean energy.
 It is an international meeting, led by the United
Nations General Assembly. It is a global treaty, that
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aims to protect human health and environment from
the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
 It was recently held in June 2022, to commemorate
50 years since the 1972 United Nations Conference
on the Human Environment, that made environment
a global issue for the first time.
World's largest plant discovered in Australia.
 The sprawling seagrass, a marine flowering plant
known as Posidonia Australis has been discovered
off the West Coast of Australia.
 It has a length of 180km and is spread over an area
of 20,000 hectares.
 It has been discovered in Shark Bay by a group of
researchers from Flinders University and The
University of Western Australia.
Canada‟s Historic Tribal Land Claim Settlement
 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed one
of the largest of its kind deals worth 1.3 billion
Canadian dollars to settle a Blackfoot tribe‘s
century-old land claim.
 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Siksika Nation
Chief Ouray Crowfoot announced the signing of a
historic land claim settlement.
 The settlement aims to right past wrongs dating
back over a century when the Canadian government
broke promise and wrongfully took almost half of
Siksika Nation‘s reserve land, including some of the
most productive agricultural and mineral-rich lands,
to sell to settlers, the release said.
 Under the settlement, Siksika can acquire over time
up to 115,000 acres of land for addition to their
reserve land base on a willing-seller/willing-buyer
basis.
Kuwait To Build The World‟s Largest Petroleum
Research Center
 Kuwait‘s Ministry of Oil announced that it plans to
start building the world‘s largest petroleum research
center by the end of 2022 in al-Ahmadi, south of
Kuwait city.
 The estimated cost of the project is $120 million.
 About Kuwait :Capital: Kuwait City, Currency:
Kuwaiti dinar
UNICEF and WHO launch the first Global Report on
Assistive Technology
 The World Health Organization (WHO) and the
United Nations Children‘s Fund (UNICEF) have
released the first Global Report on Assistive
Technology (GReAT). The paper, which was
created in conjunction with UNICEF‘s Office of
Research – Innocenti, includes 10 important
actionable suggestions for enhancing access to
assistive technology for all children, as well as
evidence-based best practise examples.
 Through a network of academic institutions,
researchers, policymakers, donors, and
practitioners, UNICEF Office of Research –
Innocenti is at the forefront of the establishment of
a Global Research Agenda and Platform for
Children to amplify the voice of children and youth
with disabilities.
 Around the world, 2.5 billion people require
assistive technology. According to the estimate, by
2050, the population will have grown to 3.5 billion
people.
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 Belgium has become the first country to make a 21-
day quarantine compulsory for monkeypox patients
after 4 cases of the disease were reported.
 The World Health Organization (WHO) reported
there were 92 cases in 12 countries, and a further 28
suspected cases under investigation.
About Monkeypox :
 Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958.
 The first human infection was recorded in the
Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970.
 Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by the
monkeypox virus part of the smallpox family
 Symptoms : rashes, fever, headaches, muscle ache,
swelling and back pain
INTERNATIONAL AND
NATIONAL SUMMIT
India hosted ASEAN Foreign Ministers & Secretary
General for a Special ASEAN-India Foreign
Ministers‟ Meeting (SAIFMM) 2022
 India hosted the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers and Secretary
General for a 2-day Special ASEAN-India Foreign
Ministers‘ Meeting (SAIFMM) 2022 for the first
time in New Delhi, Delhi, to commemorate 30
years of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations and the
10th anniversary of India-ASEAN Strategic
Partnership.
 Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan and Yang Di-
Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, presided over the
18th ASEAN-India Summit via videoconference.
 S. Jaishankar, India‘s External Affairs Minister
(EAM), and Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore‘s
Minister of Foreign Affairs, co-chaired the
SAIFMM.
 The ASEAN comprises 10 nations: Indonesia,
Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines,
Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia
and Myanmar.
Myanmar Not a Participant in the
ASEAN Meet 2022
In accordance with the intentions of the
ASEAN member states, India did not
invite Myanmar‘s foreign minister to
the ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers‘
Meeting.
 ASEAN-Myanmar relations were
strained beginning with the
February 1, 2021 coup that
deposed Myanmar‘s government
of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Ministerial Session of Twelfth Edition
of Delhi Dialogue (DDXII) 2022
 The 12th edition of the Delhi
Dialogue (DDXII) 2022, a premium Track 1.5
Dialogue in the ASEAN-India calendar, was hosted
by India on June 16-17, 2022, and was
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WEF launches alliance to supercharge India‟s
climate action
 The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched
the India chapter of the Alliance of CEO Climate
Action Leaders to supercharge India‘s climate
action and decarbonization efforts.
 The Alliance will continue efforts to achieve the
vision outlined in the white paper released last year,
―Mission 2070: A Green New Deal for a Net Zero
India‖, on India‘s low-carbon transition by 2070.
 It will bring together the government, businesses,
and other key stakeholders to achieve the Indian
Prime Minister‘s ambitious five-part ‗Panchamrit‘
pledge.
accompanied by the Special ASEAN-India Foreign
Ministers‘ Meeting (SAIFMM).
 It was held under the theme ‗Building Bridges in
the Indo-Pacific‘.
24th ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting 2022
 The 24th ASEAN-India Senior Officials‘ Meeting
2022 was held on June 15, 2022 in New Delhi,
Delhi, and was attended by senior officials from
ASEAN Member States and India.
 The 24th ASEAN-India Senior Officials‘ Meeting
was co-chaired by Saurabh Kumar, Secretary (East)
of India‘s Ministry of External Affairs and SOM
Leader, and Albert Chua, Permanent Secretary of
Singapore‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and SOM
Leader.
 The meeting observed consistent progress in the
implementation of the ASEAN-India Plan of Action
(2021-2025), which was established in 2020.
ii.India was praised at the meeting for its USD 1
million contribution to the COVID-19 ASEAN
Response Fund & its support for ASEAN &
ASEAN-led architecture in the region.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN):
 The First ASEAN Summit was held in Bali,
Indonesia on 23-24 February 1976.
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 Secretary-General –Dato Lim Jock Hoi
Establishment –1967 (in Bangkok, Thailand)
 Headquarters – Jakarta, Indonesia
12th meeting of BRICS National Security Advisors
held virtually
 the 12th meeting of BRICS National Security
Advisors (NSA) was held virtually which was
chaired by Yang Jiechi, a member of the political
bureau of the CPC (Chinese Communist Party)
Central Committee in Beijing, China.
 It was attended by NSAs of BRICS Nations viz.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa,
where India was represented by NSA Ajit Doval.
 China is the current Chair of BRICS.
India hosted 8th meeting of the Heads of the Border
Services of SCO in New Delhi
 India hosted the 8th meeting of the Heads of Border
Services of the competent authorities of member
states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO) in New Delhi, Delhi.
 India is represented by Border Security Force (BSF)
Director General (DG) Pankaj Kumar Singh.
 This was one of several events being organised in
2022 by India as Chair of SCO‘s Regional Anti-
Terrorist Structure (SCO-RATS) mechanism. India
became the chair of SCO-RATS on October 28,
2021 for a one-year period.
About Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO):
 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is
an intergovernmental organization founded in
Shanghai, China, on 15 June 2001.
 The SCO currently comprises eight Member States:
China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
 The SCO Secretariat, based in Beijing, China, is the
main permanent executive body of the SCO.
 The Secretariat is headed by the Secretary-General
– Zhang Ming of China.
Prime Minister will preside over the first National
Conference of Chief Secretaries in Dharamsala
The first National Conference of Chief Secretaries will
be organized at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh on 16th
and 17th June, 2022. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
preside over this national conference.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs 25th meeting
of Western Zonal Council in Diu
 Union Home Minister Amit Shah has chaired the
25th meeting of the Western Zonal Council in Diu.
Issues related to inter-state border, security, basic
infrastructure, transport and industry related to
western states were discussed in the meeting.
 Gujarat, Maharashtra,Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli
and Daman and Diu are the members of this
council.
 Regional councils are statutory (not constitutional)
bodies. These are established by an Act of
Parliament, i.e. States Reorganization Act 1956.
This act divided the country into five regions-
northern, central, eastern, western and southern and
provided a regional council for each region.
 Apart from the above-mentioned regional councils,
a North-Eastern Council was created by a separate
Act of Parliament, the North-Eastern Councils Act
of 1971. Its members include Assam, Manipur,
Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland,
Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim.
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Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
inaugurates National Yoga Olympiad 2022
 Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has
inaugurated National Yoga Olympiad 2022 and
quiz competition in New Delhi.
 The National Yoga Olympiad is being organised
jointly by the Ministry of Education and the
National Council of Educational Research and
Training.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Inaugurates Industrial
Decarbonization Summit 2022 in New Delhi
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin
Gadkari has inaugurated the 'Industrial Decarbonization
Summit 2022' in New Delhi.
It focused on various research topics related to
decarbonisation, policy issues, sustainability including
their management and climate change, etc.
Amit Shah inaugurates new building of National
Tribal Research Institute in New Delhi
 Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah
has inaugurated the newly built National Tribal
Research Institute (NTRI) in New Delhi.
 This institute is to promote and preserve the tribal
heritage and culture and the nerve centre of tribal
research issues and matters in academic, executive
and legislative fields.
 It is being established at a cost of 10 crore rupees.
Prime Minister Modi Virtually Addressed Rotary
International Convention 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India is the land
of Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, who exemplified what
it means to live for others. While electronically
addressing the Rotary International World Convention,
the Prime Minister made the comment. The Rotarians
have been described as a true mix of people ―‖Every
Rotary gathering of this scale is like a mini-global
assembly.‖
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the
Biotech Startup Expo-2022 on 9 June.
 Biotech Startup Expo – 2022 will be organized on
9-10 June at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
 It is being organized by the Department of
Biotechnology and Biotechnology Industry
Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).
 ‗Biotech Startup Innovations: Towards
AatmaNirbhar Bharat‘ is the theme of the Biotech
Startup Expo.
 Biotech Startup Expo 2022 will also mark the 10th
anniversary of the Biotechnology Industry Research
Assistance Council (BIRAC).
Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022: PM Modi inaugurated
India‟s biggest drone festival
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated
India‘s biggest drone festival here and interacted
with Kisan drone pilots as well as witnessed open-
air drone demonstrations. ‗Bharat Drone Mahotsav
2022‘ is set to be a two-day event being held on
May 27 and 28.
 The Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 will also witness
a virtual award of drone pilot certificates, panel
discussions, product launches, a display of a ‗Made
in India‘ Drone Taxi prototype, and flying
demonstrations, among others, the Prime Minister‘s
Office further added.
Prime Minister Modi chaired the 40th PRAGATI
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 The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has urged
infrastructure agencies to map their projects with
the water bodies being constructed under the Amrit
Sarovar. Mr Modi stated that this would be a win-
win situation because the material needed for the
Amrit Sarovars could be used by the agencies for
public works.
 The Prime Minister presided over the 40th edition
of PRAGATI, an ICT-based multi-modal platform
for Pro-Active Governance and Timely
BILATRAL AND MOU
India and Jordan have agreed to collaborate in the
fertilizers sector:
 Mansukh Mandaviya led a high-level delegation to
Jordan in a first-of-its-kind mission to secure
fertilizers and raw materials for the short and long
term.According to Dr. Mandaviya, the Jordan visit
was significant in ensuring India‘s supply of
phosphoric and potassium fertilizers.
 Jordan Phosphate Mining Company (JPMC) inked
MOUs with Indian public, cooperative, and private
sector companies for supplies of 30 LMT Rock
Phosphate, 2.50 LMT DAP, and 1 LMT phosphoric
acid for 2022.
US becomes India‟s top trading partner in 2021-22;
overtakes China
 The US overtook China to become India‘s top
trading partner in 2021-22, reflecting strong
economic ties between the two countries.
 According to commerce ministry data, in 2021-22,
bilateral trade between the US and India stood at
US$ 119.42 billion as against US$ 80.51 billion in
2020-21.
 Exports to the US increased to US$ 76.11 billion in
2021-22 from US$ 51.62 billion in the previous
fiscal, while imports rose to US$ 43.31 billion as
compared to around US$ 29 billion in
2020-21. During 2021-22, India‘s
two-way commerce with China
aggregated at US$ 115.42 billion as
compared to US$ 86.4 billion in 2020-
21, the data showed
India Plans 10 Hydro Plants To Utilize
Water Treaty With Pakistan.
India is working on building 10
hydropower projects totalling 6.8 gigawatts
(GW) in Jammu and Kashmir and
Himachal Pradesh to fully utilize its share
of waters under the 1960 Indus Waters
Treaty with Pakistan.
The projects being undertaken at an
investment of Rs 68,000 crore by state-run
NHPC Ltd are part of India‘s plan to
exercise its rights to stop excess water from
flowing into Pakistan.
Border Coordination Conference between the BSF
and the BGB gets underway in Bangladesh
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Implementation that brings together the Centre and
State governments.
 Prime Minister Modi also discussed the ‗National
Broadband Mission‘ programme at the meeting.
States and agencies were asked to use the
centralised Gati Shakti Sanchar Portal to ensure that
Right of Way (RoW) applications were processed
quickly.
 The Border Coordination Conference between India
and Bangladesh was opened at Sylhet by Inspector
General BSF-Regional Commander BGB.
 The Indian team arrived in Bangladesh via the
Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Dawki, Meghalaya,
where they were greeted by top BGB personnel.
 The conference will be attended by a five-member
BSF team led by IG BSF Sumit Sharan.
Bangladesh top recipient of Covid vaccines under
COVAX
 Bangladesh remains the top recipient of COVID 19
vaccines under the COVAX facility to date, says
UNICEF.
 It has received over 190 million doses of COVID
19 vaccines through the COVAX facility which is a
global initiative co-led by the Coalition for
Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, Gavi, the
Vaccine Alliance, and the World Health
Organisation, with UNICEF as a key delivery
partner. COVAX accounts for over 62 percent of
doses received by Bangladesh.
 Bangladesh with 69 per cent fully vaccinated
population is close to achieving the global
benchmark of 70 per cent fully vaccinated
population by June 2022. A COVID-19 booster
dose campaign is planned for June.
India and Senegal sign MoUs for cultural exchange,
cooperation in youth matters and visa free regime for
officials
India and Senegal have signed three MoUs for cultural
exchange, cooperation in youth matters and visa-free
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regime for officials. The MoUs were signed after
delegation-level talks between Vice President M
Venkaiah Naidu and President of Senegal Macky Sall in
the capital city of Dakar.
India & Canada inked MoU on Climate Action for
Stronger Cooperation
India and Canada have signed a memorandum of
understanding to strengthen bilateral collaboration on
climate change, environmental preservation, and
conservation. On the sidelines of the Stockholm+50
summit, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav
and his Canadian colleague Steven Guilbeault signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Visit Of Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu to
Gabon, Senegal and Qatar
 Vice President (VP) of India M Venkaiah Naidu
paid a visit to Gabon, Senegal and Qatar from 30
May-07 June 2022.
 This was India‘s first visit to all three countries at
the level of Vice President.
 In addition, this was India‘s first-ever high-level
visit to Gabon and Senegal.
EAM of India S. Jaishankar visits Slovakia & the
Czech Republic
 Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, External Affairs
Minister(EAM) of India visited Slovakia on 2nd-
3rd June 2022 and the Czech Republic on 4th-5th
June 2022 and held various high-level exchanges
and discussions on the cooperation across sectors
with the leadership of both the nations.
 EAM participated in the 17th edition of the
Bratislava Forum ―GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava
Forum‖ which took place from 2nd to 4th June
2022 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
 He addressed the forum on the topic of ―Taking
Friendship to the Next Level: Allies in the Indo-
Pacific Region‖.
India Extends Sri Lanka USD 55 Million Credit Line
for Fertiliser Imports
 A Line of Credit (LoC) agreement has been signed
between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and
the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India at
Colombo, Sri Lanka to extend a Line of Credit
(LOC) of USD 55 million to Sri Lanka for the
procurement of Urea Fertiliser.
 The LoC agreement was signed in the presence of
the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil
Wickremesinghe, the Minister of Agriculture
Mahinda Amaraweera, and the High Commissioner
of India to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay.
 This would help to secure urea fertiliser for the
ongoing paddy sowing ‗Yala‗ season.
 The LOC will be in line with India‘s
‗Neighbourhood First‘ policy and the support from
India ranges close to USD 3.5 billion to help secure
Sri Lanka‘s food, health, and energy security by
supplying essential items like food, medicines, fuel,
kerosene etc.
Cabinet approves MoU between NIES, Japan and
ARIES, India for Joint Research on Air Quality and
Climate Change
The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of MoU to
establish collaborative guidelines between the National
Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan and
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences
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(ARIES), India to carry out and implement joint research
on air quality and climate change.
Cabinet approves MoU between India and Australia
for Technical Cooperation for AIWASI
 The Union Cabinet approved the MoU between the
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA),
Government of India and Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Government of
Australia for Technical Cooperation for Australia-
India Water Security Initiative (AIWASI) which
was signed in December, 2021.
 The MoU seeks bilateral cooperation between the
two countries in the area of urban water security or
management, and to promote exchange of learning,
best practices and capacity building of institutions
in this field.
1st-ever India-EU Security and Defence
Consultations held in Brussels
 First-ever India-European Union (EU) Security and
Defence Consultations held in Brussels, Belgium.
The consultations were held in accordance with the
decision taken at India-EU Summit in July 2020.
 Consultations were co-chaired by Joint secretary of
Ministry of Defence Somnath Ghosh and Joint
Secretary (Europe West) of Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) Sandeep Chakravorty from India
and Director Security and Defence Policy, from
European Union.
Mango Festival being organized by APEDA in
Bahrain
 The Agricultural and Processed Food Products
Export Development Authority (APEDA) is
organizing an eight-day 'Mango Festival' in Bahrain
to promote mango exports.
 34 varieties of mangoes from the eastern states
West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and
Odisha are on display at eight different locations of
Al Jazeera Group supermarkets in Bahrain.
Rajnath Singh Hands over 12 High-Speed Guard
Boats to Vietnam
 Rajnath Singh handed over 12 High Speed Guard
Boats to Vietnam during his visit to Hong Ha
Shipyard in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
 It was constructed under the Government of India‘s
$US 100 million Defence Line of Credit to
Vietnam.
 The initial 5 boats were built in the Larsen &
Toubro (L&T) Shipyard in India and the other 7 in
Hong Ha Shipyard in Vietnam.
Rajnath Singh Gifts USD 1 million to Vietnamese Air
Force training institute
 Rajnath Singh gifted 2 simulators and a grant of
USD 1 million to Vietnamese Air Force training
institute for a language and Information Technology
(IT) laboratory capacity building.
 He also visited the Telecommunications University
in Nha Trang where an Army software park is being
established with a USD 5 million grant from India.
France signs agreement to accept UPI payments and
RuPay cards from India
 Union Communication Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
said that UPI and Rupay card services will be
available in France soon, giving a huge boost to the
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Rupay cards.
 The overseas branch of India‘s National Payments
Corporation (NPCI) has inked a Memorandum of
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Understanding (MoU) with France‘s Lyra Network
for the acceptance of UPI and Rupay in the country.
 So far, countries such as Singapore, the United
Arab Emirates, Bhutan, and Nepal have adopted
India‘s UPI payment system.
India and European Union to resume free trade
negotiations after nine years.
 The first round of formal free trade negotiations
between India and the European Union will begin
on 27 June in New Delhi.
 The main aim of the free trade negotiations is to
double the bilateral trade in five years from $116
billion in 2021-22.
 India-EU free trade negotiations were stopped in
2013 due to the movement of Indian professionals
and high tariffs on European farm produce.
AWARD AND HONOR
Young women entrepreneur Rashmi Sahoo wins
Times Business Award 2022
 Director of Ruchi Foodline, Eastern India‘s leading
food brand and Odisha‘s No.1 spices company,
Rashmi Sahoo has been presented the Times
Business Award 2022. She was given the award by
renowned Bollywood actor and social activist Sonu
Sood.
 The award was given in the category of Eastern
India‘s Leading READY -TO-EAT brand.
Former West Indies skipper Darren Sammy
conferred with the Sitara-e-Pakistan award
 Former West Indies captain, Daren Sammy has
been conferred with the Sitara-i-Pakistan Award for
Services to Pakistan during a ceremony. The 38-
year-old all-rounder was being recognized for his
role in helping bring international cricket back to
Pakistan. It is the third-highest civil award
conferred by Pakistan.
 In March 2020, he received the highest civilian
medal of Pakistan, Nishan-e-Pakistan, for his part in
helping bring international cricket back to Pakistan.
He was also awarded honorary Pakistani citizenship
by the President of Pakistan Arif Alvi.
Meghalaya Wins Best Project Award at UN World
Summit
 The Meghalaya government key initiative of e-
proposal system, part of Meghalaya Enterprise
Architect has won a coveted UN Award- World
Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS)
prize at Geneva in Switzerland.
 Secretary General of ITU, Houlin Zhao presented
the winner award to Chief Minister Conrad K
Sangma in the WSIS Forum Prizes 2022, held at
Geneva, Switzerland. Post this there was voting to
select the best 90 projects which were invited in
Geneva, Switzerland for the final award.
Indian-American Harini Logan crowned Scripps
National Spelling Bee champion
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 European Union is the second-largest trading
partner of India after the United States.
 India‘s export to European Union has increased by
57% in 2021-22 to $65 billion.
European Union:
 It is a political and economic union of 27 member
states which are mainly located in Europe.
 It was founded on 1 November 1993. It is
headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
India-Bangladesh 7th round of Joint Consultative
Commission held in New Delhi.
 Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar held a
bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart
A K Abdul Momen.
 India and Bangladesh are working on new areas of
cooperation including artificial intelligence, cyber
security, start-ups and fintech.
Harini Logan, a 14-year-old Indian-American eighth-
grader from Texas, spelled 21 words correctly to win the
prestigious 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating
Vikram Raju in a marathon, first-of-its-kind spell-off, a
format that tested the contestants on how many words
they could correctly spell within 90 seconds.
MIFF 2022: „Turn Your Body to the Sun‟ bags
Golden Conch award for the Best Documentary
 The Dutch documentary film ―Turn Your Body to
the Sun‖, which tells the incredible story of a Soviet
Prisoner of War, has won the prestigious Golden
Conch award for the Best Documentary Film at
MIFF 2022.
 The top award of the Mumbai International Film
Festival for Documentary, Short Fiction and
Animation Films was presented by the Governor of
Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshiyari.
Indian Railways awarded by the UIC International
Sustainable Railway Awards (ISRA)
 Indian Railways is observing World Environment
Day on 5th June, 2022 in an appropriate and
befitting manner keeping in line with the theme of
this year‘s World Environment Day.
 In a gala ceremony, on 1st June 2022, in Berlin,
Indian Railways have been awarded by the UIC
International Sustainable Railway Awards (ISRA)
in the category of ―Best use of Zero-Carbon
Technology‖ for feeding Solar Energy directly to
25 KV AC Traction System.
IIFA awards 2022
 The International Indian Film Academy Awards
(IIFA) held in Abu Dhabi. This year the IIFA 2022
Awards was hosted by Salman Khan, Maniesh Paul
and Riteish Deshmukh. Sidharth Malhotra‘s
Shershaah dominated the awards this year, with the
film winning in as many as five categories.
List of the winners of IIFA 2022:
 Best Actor (Male): Vicky Kaushal (Sardar Udham)
 Best Actor (Female): Kriti Sanon (Mimi)
 Best Director: Vishnuvaradhan (Shershaah)
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 Best Film: Shershaah
 Best Playback Singer Female: Asees Kaur for
‗Raataan Lambiyan‘, (Shershaah)
 Best Playback Singer Male: Jubin Nautiyal for song
‗Raataan Lambiyan‘, (Shershaah)
WHO award for PGI Chandigarh centre for tobacco
control
 Recognising its efforts in advancing tobacco
control, the WHO has awarded the Resource Centre
for Tobacco Control (e-RCTC) of the Department
of Community Medicine and School of Public
Health at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh
with the Regional Director Special Recognition
Award.
 The Resource Center for Tobacco Control, a joint
initiative of the PGIMER and the UNION-SEA,
was set up in 2018 by 25 organisations working
over tobacco control in India with an aim to
showcase tobacco control initiatives.
2nd Edition of the DSDP Excellence Awards held in
New Delhi
In New Delhi, the 2nd edition of the Awards for
Excellence in District Skill Development Planning,
DSDP, was held, with the top 30 districts in the area
being recognised for their unique best practises in skill
development.
The top three districts in the competition were Rajkot in
Gujarat, Cachar in Assam, and Satara in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Governor presents Honorary Doctorate
to industrialist Ratan Tata
 Industrialist and philanthropist, Ratan Tata was
presented with Honorary Doctor of Literature by
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at
Raj Bhavan Mumbai.
 The Honorary doctorate was presented to Mr. Ratan
at the First Special Convocation of the HSNC
University. The Governor said the honour for Ratan
Tata is in effect the honour of the entire Tata family
and Tata Group.
Kempegowda International Airport Wins Best
Regional Airport in India and South Asia Award
Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport has won
the title of Best Regional Airport in India and South Asia
at the Skytrax World Airport Awards-2022. The award is
based on passenger feedback in a survey conducted
globally.
Bengaluru airport also won the Best Airport and
Aviation Innovation award at the Wings India Awards
earlier this year.
Hamad International Airport Named World's Best
Airport
Qatar's Hamad International Airport has been named the
best airport in the world for the second year in a row.
The announcement came at the Skytrax-2022 World
Airport Awards held at the Passenger Terminal Expo in
Paris, France.
Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru was
adjudged the best regional airport in India and South
Asia.
Top airports in the world for 2022
1. Hamad International Airport
2. Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
3. Singapore Changi Airport
India wins UNESCO award for use of ICT in school
education
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An initiative called PM e-VIDYA, run by the
Department of School Education, Union Ministry of
Education, has been accorded UNESCO recognition for
using ICT especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 'Central Institute of Educational Technology'
(CIET), a unit of the National Council of Educational
Research and Training (NCERT) under the Department
of School Education and Literacy (DOSEL), Ministry of
Education, Government of India, has been awarded the
UNESCO 'King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of the Year
2021 Award' for the use of ICT in education.
US-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki wins Women‟s
Prize for Fiction
 US-Canadian author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist
priest, Ruth Ozeki has won the Women‘s Prize for
Fiction this year for her novel ‗The Book of Form
and Emptiness‖.
 Ozeki‘s fourth novel, ‗The Book of Form and
Emptiness‘ tells the story of a thirteen-year-old boy
who, after the tragic death of his father, starts to
hear the voices of objects speaking to him.
Prime Minister‟s award for outstanding contribution
for promotion of Yoga announced
 On the occasion of International Yoga Day, the
AYUSH ministry has announced to give the ‗Prime
Minister‘s Award for Outstanding Contribution
towards the Development and Promotion of Yoga‘
for 2022 to two individuals and two organisations in
recognition of their contributions in the space.
 Two individuals Bhikkhu Sanghasena from Ladakh,
Marcus Vinicius Rojo Rodrigues from Brazil and
two organisations, ―The Divine Life Society‖ from
Uttarakhand and the British Wheel of Yoga from
United Kingdom have been chosen for award. They
will also receive Rs 25 lakh as cash prize, a trophy
and a certificate.
Noted filmmaker Sanjit Narwekar conferred with V
Shantaram Lifetime achievement award at MIFF
2022
 Eminent filmmaker and author Sanjit Narwekar has
been conferred with the coveted Dr V Shantaram
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 17th edition of
the Mumbai International Film Festival for
Documentary, Short Fiction, and Animation Films.
 The V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award
carries a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh, golden conch and
a citation.
RJ Umar from Kashmir receives Immunisation
Champion award by UNICEF
 Radio Jockey Umar Nisar (RJ Umar), who hails
from south Kashmir, has been awarded the ‘01 Best
Content Award‘ and the Immunization Champion
award by UNICEF at the annual Radio4Child 2022
Awards in Mumbai.
 The Radio4Child felicitated radio professionals
from private FM and All India Radio from across
the country for their commendable work during the
COVID-19 pandemic as well as for routine
vaccination.
Shaunak Sen's Documentary 'All That Breathes'
Wins L'OEil D'Or at Cannes
Filmmaker Shaunak Sen‘s documentary All That
Breathes, India‘s only entry at Cannes Film Festival
2022, has won the 2022 L‘Oeil d‘Or, the festival‘s top
prize for documentaries.
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 The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival came
to a glittering close with the nine-member jury
giving out the big awards at the prestigious festival.
The awards were selected by a nine-member jury
headed by French actor Vincent Lindon and
presented in a closing ceremony inside Cannes‘
Grand Lumière Theater. The jury included an
Indian face in actor Deepika Padukone. A separate
section of two awards for documentary films was
adjudged earlier on Saturday. Those awards were
adjudged by a separate jury.
LIST OF WINNERS AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
2022:
 Palme d‘Or: Triangle of Sadness, directed by Ruben
Östlund
 Grand Prix: Stars at Noon, directed by Claire Denis
and Close directed by Lukas Dhont
 Jury Prize: Eo, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and
Le Otto Montagne, directed by Charlotte
Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen
 Best Director: Park Chan-wook for Decision to
Leave
 Best Actor: Song Kang-ho for Broker
 Best Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Holy Spider
 Jury Special Award: Tori and Lokita
 L‘Oeil d‘Or: All That Breathes
 Jury Special Award (documentary): Mariupolis 2
Indian novel „Tomb of Sand‟ wins International
Booker Prize
 Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American
translator Daisy Rockwell won the International
Booker Prize for ―Tomb of Sand,‖.
 The book tells the story of an octogenarian widow
who dares to cast off convention and confront the
ghosts of her experiences during the subcontinent‘s
tumultuous 1947 partition into India and Pakistan.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui honoured with Excellence in
Cinema award at French Riviera Film Festival
 Bollywood actor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been
honoured with an international award for his
contribution to cinema. At the prestigious French
Riviera Film Festival, Emmy award-winning
PERSON IN NEWS
Aarti Prabhakar US President Joe Biden is going
to nominate Indian-origin
physicist Aarti Prabhakar as his
scientific advisor.
Ranjana Prakash Former Supreme Court judge
Desai Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
has been elected to the post of
President of the Press Council of
India (PCI).
S L Thaosen S L Thaosen appointed as
Director-General of the Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB)
Pramod K Mittal Industry body Cellular Operators‘
Association of India (COAI)
named Pramod K Mittal,
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American actor Vincent De Paul bestowed the
honour to Siddiqui.
Mamata Banerjee awarded Special Bangla Academy
Award
 On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore‘s birth
anniversary, the chief minister of West Bengal,
Mamata Banerjee, has received the first Bangla
Academy award for her ―relentless literary pursuit
at the ―Ravi Pranam‖ function organized by the
government‘s information and culture department.
 The award was introduced by Sahitya Academy &
it was presented to Banerjee for her book ―Kabita
Bitan‖, which pays tribute to the best writers of
West Bengal.
Union Minister of Power Shri R.K Singh confers
NHPC Limited with first prize of „Rajbhasha Shield‟
Union Power Minister RK Singh has conferred National
Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC
Limited) with the first prize for the year 2020-21 and the
second prize for the year 2018-19 for excellent
implementation of Rajbhasha.
Rolls-Royce India president Jayaraman gets top
British honour
 Kishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia
for Rolls-Royce, has received an honorary Officer
of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her
Majesty The Queen, British Deputy High
Commission.
 Mr. Jayaraman is a board member of the U.K.-India
Business Council, which supports U.K. businesses
set-up in India. He has also been instrumental in
promoting bilateral ties by setting up a strategic
ecosystem for boosting manufacturing in India
enabled by U.K.‘s technology.
The VASVIK industrial research award 2020 given
to A Gopalakrishnan
 A Gopalakrishnan, Director of the ICAR-Central
Marine Fisheries Research Institute has won the
VASVIK (Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas
Kendra) Industrial Research Award for the year
2020 in the category of Agricultural Sciences and
Technology.
President of Reliance Jio
Infocomm, as the new
Chairperson of the association for
2022-23.
B S Patil Former Karnataka High Court
judge, Bhimanagouda
Sanganagouda Patil was sworn in
as the Lokayukta of Karnataka.
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot
administered the oath of office to
Justice Patil.
Gopi Chand Eminent Urdu critic & linguist
Narang Professor Gopi Chand Narang
passes away
Vasudevan The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
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Pathangi has approved the proposal to
Narasimhan reappoint Vasudevan Pathangi
Narasimhan (Vasudevan P N) as
the Managing Director (MD) &
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of the Equitas Small Finance
Bank (ESFB), for a period of one
year with effect from July 23,
2022.
R. Raveendran Veteran photojournalist, R.
Raveendran passed away at the
age of 69. He was the recipient of
numerous photography awards
and is known for his iconic photo
of Rajiv Goswami setting himself
on fire during the Mandal
agitation in the Capital.
Ruchira Kamboj Ruchira Kamboj will be India's
Permanent Representative to
U.N. She has been appointed as
the next Ambassador and
Permanent Representative of
India to the United Nations.
Bajram Begaj General-Major Bajram Begaj
elected as the new Albanian
president
Alok Kumar Alok Kumar Choudhary has took
Choudhary charge as the new Managing
Director (MD) of State Bank of
India (SBI).
Satish Pai The International Aluminium
Institute (IAI), the only body
representing the global primary
aluminium industry, has
announced the appointment of
Satish Pai as its new Chair.
Shreya Lenka Shreya Lenka has become the
first-ever Indian to become a
professional K-pop artiste. The
18-year-old from Odisha is now a
part of popular South Korean girl
group Blackswan along with a
Brazilian girl called Gabriela
Dalcin.
Ramkrishna For the first time in the world, an
Mukkavilli Indian has been named a Global
Sustainable Development Goal
(SDG) Pioneer for Water
Stewardship by the United
Nations Global Compact
(UNGC).
Nobuyuki Idei Sony ex-CEO Nobuyuki Idei
passes away
Rabab Fatima United Nations (UN) Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
appointed Ambassador Rabab
Fatima, Permanent
Representative of Bangladesh as
the Under Secretary General or
Assistant Secretary General of
the UN
Amandeep Singh UN Chief Appoints Indian
Gill Diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill
As Envoy On Technology.
Krishna Srinivasan Kristalina Georgieva, Managing
Director (MD) of the
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International Monetary Fund
(IMF), has appointed Indian
national Krishna Srinivasan, as
the director of the IMF‘s Asia
and Pacific Department (APD)
N J Ojha N J Ojha has been appointed as
ombudsman for a two-year term
under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme.An
ombudsman has the power to
receive complaints from
MGNREGA workers, consider
such complaints, pass awards
within 30 days from the date of
receipt of complaint and issue
direction for conducting spot
investigation and also initiate
proceedings ‗suo motu‘ if there
are any grievance including on
issues related to delayed payment
of wages or non-payment of
unemployment allowance.
Mayank Kumar Mayank Kumar Agrawal,
Agrawal Director-General of Doordarshan
and Doordarshan News, has been
assigned an additional charge as
Prasar Bharati's CEO.
R Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
Subramaniakumar appointed R Subramaniakumar as
the MD & CEO of RBL Bank.
He has been appointed at RBL
for three years from the date of
taking charge.
Hari Chand Two-time Asian Games gold
medallist in long-distance
running Hari Chand passed away
at the age of 69.
Manik Saha Rajya Sabha MP and BJP state
president Manik Saha is all set to
take over as the new Chief
Minister of Tripura.
Nidhi Chibber Senior IAS officer, Nidhi
Chibber has been appointed as
the chairperson of the Central
Board of Secondary Education
(CBSE) in a top-level
bureaucratic reshuffle effected by
the Centre.
Sheikh Mohamed The Supreme Council of the
bin Zayed Al Union elected Sheikh Mohamed
Nahyan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of
Abu Dhabi, as President of the
UAE.
Mr. Natarajan Former State Bank of India (SBI)
Sundar executive Mr. Natarajan Sundar
has been appointed managing
director and CEO of National
Assets Reconstruction Company
Ltd (NARCL).
Mr. Rajesh Gera According to the order issued by
the Personnel Ministry, Senior
scientist Mr. Rajesh Gera has
been appointed as the Director-
General, National Informatics
Centre (NIC).
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Mr. Pankaj Sharma The Center has appointed Mr.
Pankaj Sharma the Joint
Secretary in the Department of
Financial Services (DFS) as a
part-time member of the Pension
Fund Regulatory & Development
Authority (PFRDA).
Zulfiquar Hasan Senior IPS officer, Zulfiquar
Hasan has been appointed as the
new Director-General of the
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
(BCAS).
S L Thaosen Centre Appoints S L Thaosen as
Director General of Sashastra
Seema Bal
Sachin Tendulkar Sachin Tendulkar will continue
as United Nations Children‘s
Fund (UNICEF) ‗Goodwill
Ambassador‘ for a record 20th
year, working for the welfare of
underprivileged children.
shwani Bhatia Former managing director at the
State Bank of India (SBI),
Ashwani Bhatia was appointed as
a whole-time member (WTM) of
the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI).
Javier Olivan Javier Olivan, the current chief
growth officer at Meta Platforms,
will take over as the company‘s
chief operating officer after
Sheryl Sandberg stepped down
from the post. Olivan has been
with Meta, formerly known as
Facebook, for several years,
contributing to its explosive
expansion.
S Krishnan Punjab & Sind Bank Limited, an
Indian nationalised bank,
announced that its MD & CEO, S
Krishnan to retire from the role,
with effect from May 31, 2022.
Zulfiquar Hasan Senior IPS officer, Zulfiquar
Hasan has been appointed as the
new Director-General of the
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
(BCAS).
Mukesh Ambani Mukesh Ambani has surpassed
Gautam Adani to regain the spot
of Asia's and India's richest man.
As per Bloomberg Billionaire
index, RIL Chairman Ambani has
gained the eighth spot in the
world's richest as his net worth
stands at $99.7 billion.
Rajesh Gera Senior scientist Rajesh Gera has
been appointed as the Director
General, National Informatics
Centre (NIC)
Bhajan Sopori Santoor Maestro and Padma Shri
award winner Bhajan Sopori
passed away at the age of 73.He
was the great-grandson of Pandit
Shankar Pandit, who developed
the popular style known as ‗Sufi
Baaj‘ (style), based on the
AUGUST – 2022
classical music of Sufiana Qalam
and Hindustani.
Swarup Kumar The government has appointed
Saha Swarup Kumar Saha as head of
Punjab & Sind Bank. Saha, who
is the executive director of
Punjab National Bank (PNB),
replaced S Krishnan, who also
superannuated on May 31.
A Manimekhalai The government has appointed A
Manimekhalai as managing
director of Union Bank of India.
Yash Dhull The Election Commission of
India (ECI) has appointed
cricketer Yash Dhull as the ―state
icon‖ for the National Capital
Territory (NCT) of Delhi to
motivate youngsters to get
enrolled to exercise their right to
vote.
He was also the Captain for India
for the 2022 ICC Under-19
Cricket World Cup in the West
Indies.
Sandip Pradhan The Appointments Committee of
the Cabinet (ACC) has been
granted to extend the service
center of Sports Authority of
India (SAI) Director General
Sandip Pradhan to another two
years till September 30, 2024.
Anjalai Ponnusamy Freedom fighter Anjalai
Ponnusamy, who fought for
India‘s independence from the
British colony, died aged 102.At
the age of 21, Anjali joined the
Rani of Jhansi Regiment – the
women‘s regiment of the Army
of The nation of India – in the
hope of dispelling the yoke of
British colonialism over the
people of India.
Meenakshi Lekhi Minister of State for Culture and
External Affairs Meenakshi
Lekhi participated in the 7th
BRICS Culture Ministers‘
Meeting hosted by China through
a video conference.
Dr Tedros World Health Organization has
Ghebreyesus re-appointed Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus as Director-General
of WHO for the second term with
effect from 16th August 2022.
Gaurav Sachdeva JSW Group announced the
appointment of Gaurav Sachdeva
as CEO of its e-commerce
venture JSW One Platforms.
T N Manoharan IDBI Bank said its board has
approved the appointment of T N
Manoharan as the part-time
chairman for a period of three
years.
Narinder Batra Narinder Batra has resigned from
his position as president of the
Indian Olympic Association
(IOA). Mr Batra also indicated
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that he will not run for president
of the IOA again. He is also the
International Hockey
Federation‘s president (FIH).
Sidhu Moose Wala 29-year old Punjabi singer, Sidhu
Moose Wala was shot dead by
unidentified assailants in
Jawaharke village of Mansa
district, Punjab. The incident
happened a day after the Punjab
Police ordered the withdrawal of
security of his security along with
more than 420 people, including
former MLAs, Jathedars of two
Takhts, heads of Deras, and
police officers.
Dr Swati Dhingra Leading UK-based academic Dr
Swati Dhingra has been named as
the first Indian-origin woman to
be appointed as an external
member of the Bank of England‘s
interest rate-setting Committee.
Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan, Pankaj Patel,
and Ravindra Dholakia appointed to RBI central
board
The government has appointed industrialists Anand
Mahindra, Pankaj R Patel and Venu Srinivasan, and
former IIM (Ahmedabad) professor Ravindra H
Dholakia as non-official directors on the central board of
the Reserve Bank.
The nominations have been made for four years by the
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).
Ramkrishna Mukkavilli becomes first Indian to be
recognised as Global SDG pioneer by UNGC
Ramkrishna Mukkavilli has become the first Indian to be
recognised as the Global Sustainable Development Goal
(SDG) Pioneer for water stewardship by the United
Nations Global Compact (UNGC). It is for the first time
that an Indian has been recognised for the position.
Ramkrishna Mukkavilli, the Founder and Managing
Director of Maithri Aquatech, a Make-In-India company,
was previously selected as India‘s SDG Pioneer by the
UN Global Compact Network India (GCNI) earlier in
SPORTS
Neeraj Chopra Sets New National Record With 89.30
Metre Javelin Throw
 India‘s ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra set a new
national record as he threw 89.30 metres at the
Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland.
 Chopra‘s earlier national record was 88.07m which
he had set in Patiala in March last year. He had won
the Tokyo Olympics gold with a throw of 87.58m
on August 7, 2021.
 Finland‘s Oliver Helander won the gold medal at
the event with a throw of 89.83 metres.
Schedule of FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup to be
held in India is released
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2022, for his work in building water security with
nature-based water solutions across India and 27
countries.
New Chief Justices appointed in six High Courts
including Rajasthan
New chief justice
1. Chief Justice of Telangana High Court Satish
Chandra Sharma has been transferred and made
Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.
2. Justice Vipin Sanghi, a judge of the Delhi High
Court, has been made the Chief Justice of the
Uttarakhand High Court.
3. Bombay High Court Judge Justice Amjad A. Sayed
has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Himachal
Pradesh High Court.
4. Bombay High Court Judge Justice S. S. Shinde has
been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan
High Court.
5. Justice Rashmin M. Chhaya, a judge of the Gujarat
High Court, has been made the Chief Justice of the
Gauhati High Court.
6. Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, the present judge of the
Telangana High Court, has been promoted and
made the Chief Justice there.
Justice Pradip Mohanty Appointed As Acting
Chairperson Of Lokpal
 President Ram Nath Kovind has given justice
Pradip Kumar Mohanty the additional charge of
Lokpal chairperson after justice Pinaki Chandra
Ghose completed his term as the Lokpal chief. At
present, there are six members in the Lokpal.
 A Lokpal chief and members are appointed for a
term of five years or until attaining the age of 70
years.
 A Lokpal chief and its members are appointed by
the President after obtaining the recommendations
of a selection committee headed by the Prime
Minister and comprising the speaker of the Lok
Sabha, the Leader of Opposition in the lower house,
the Chief Justice of India or a judge of the Supreme
Court nominated by him, and an eminent jurist as
recommended by the chairperson and members of
the selection panel.
Recently FIFA has announced the schedule of Under-17
Women's nWorld Cup-2022. It will be organized in
India. The official draw is scheduled to take place on 24
June, 2022.
final match will be held at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi
Mumbai on 30 October, 2022. It is an international
football tournament organized by FIFA for female
players under the age of 17.
2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in America,
Mexico and Canada
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be jointly organized by
the US, Mexico and Canada. This is the first time in the
history of FIFA that three countries have been entrusted
with the hosting of the World Cup.
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In this 48 teams will participate instead of 32. Currently,
the current season of the World Cup is being held in
Qatar, which will be held from 21 November to 18
December.
Olympic gold medalist Neeraj to lead 37-member
team in Commonwealth Games-2022
 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra will
lead a 37-member Indian team(18 women players)
at the Commonwealth Games-2022 to be held in
Birmingham from 28 July to 08 August, 2022. The
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has announced
this.
 Birmingham (England) will host the 2022 edition of
the Commonwealth Games from 28 July to 8
August.
England made the highest ever score in ODI cricket
 England cricket team has made the highest ODI
score. In the first match of the three-match ODI
series against the Netherlands, the English team
scored 498 runs in 50 over for the loss of 4 wickets.
 Four years ago, England had scored 481 runs for the
loss of 6 wickets against Australia.
ICC retains Nitin Menon in Elite Panel
 India‘s Nitin Menon has retained his place in the
ICC Elite Panel and is set to make his maiden
appearance as a neutral umpire in Sri Lanka later
this month.
 The 38-year-old from Indore remains the only
Indian in the 11-member Elite Panel of Umpires.
BWF Indonesia Masters 2022
 The 2022 Indonesia Masters badminton
tournament (officially known as the Daihatsu
Indonesia Masters) took place at the Istora Gelora
Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia.
 Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen and Chen
Yufei clinched the respective men‘s and women‘s
singles titles at the BWF Indonesia Masters 2022.
BWF Indonesia Masters 2022: Check the list of winners
Category Winners
Men‘s singles Viktor Axelsen (Denmark)
Women‘s singles Chen Yufei (China)
Fajar Alfian (Indonesia) &
Men‘s doubles Muhammad Rian Ardianto
(Indonesia)
Chen Qingchen (China) &
Women‘s doubles
Jia Yifan (China)
Zheng Siwei (China) &
Mixed doubles
Huang Yaqiong (China)
PM Modi launches torch relay for 44th Chess
Olympiad
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the
historic torch relay for the 44th Chess Olympiad at
Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi.
 This year, for the very first time, International
Chess Federation, FIDE, has instituted the Chess
Olympiad Torch, a part of the Olympic tradition.
India is the first country to have the Chess
Olympiad Torch Relay.
 FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich handed over
the torch to Prime Minister, who in turn handed it
over to Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen wins Canadian
Grand Prix 2022
Red Bull‘s Max Verstappen narrowly claimed his sixth
victory of the Formula 1 season after withstanding
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pressure from Ferrari‘s Carlos Sainz in the closing stages
of the Canadian Grand Prix.
Sunil Chhetri becomes joint 5th highest goalscorer
 Indian Men‘s football team captain, Sunil Chhetri
scored his 84th International goal against Hong
Kong during the Asian Football Confederation
(AFC) Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers and equalled the
record of Real Madrid and Hungarian Football
Legend Ferenc Puskás.
 Sunil Chhetri has scored 84 goals in 129
appearances while Ferenc Puskás (died in 2006
aged 79) scored 84 goals in 85 international
matches. Sunil Chhetri is the 3rd highest goal scorer
in international football among active players, after
Cristiano Ronaldo with 117 goals and Lionel Messi
with 86 goals. He is also the highest active goal
scorer from Asia and India
India ends their campaign at Bolat Turlykhanov Cup
in the second position with 12 medals:
 In Wrestling, India ended their campaign at the
Bolat Turlykhanov Cup at Almaty in Khazakstainon
in the second position with 12 medals.
 This included a tally of six golds, one silver, and
five bronze medals in total.
 Iran topped the medal tally with 14 medals.
Medals Winners (Women) Winners (Men)
Sarita Mor (59 kg),
Manisha (65 kg),
Mansi Ahlawat (57
Aman Sehrawat
Gold kg),
(57kg)
Sakshi Malik (62 kg),
Divya Kakran (68
kg)
Silver Bipasha (72 kg) -
Bajrang Punia
Pooja Sihag (76 kg),
(65kg), Mohit
Bronze Sushma Shokeen (55
Grewal (125kg),
kg)
Neeraj (63kg)
Avani Lekhara bagged gold medal at the Para
Shooting World Cup.
 Avani Lekhara created a world record by scoring
250.6 in the women's 10-meter air rifle standing
SH1 event. She broke her own world record of
249.6.
 She has secured her spot at the 2024 Paris
Paralympics.
 13 para shooters from India are taking part in the
Para Shooting World Cup in Chateauroux, France.
IISM Launches “The Winning Formula for Success”
India‟s 1st Sports Marketing Book
 India‘s leading sports and Management institute,
the International Institute of Sports & Management
(IISM) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, launched India‘s
first-ever book on Sports Marketing titled ―Business
of Sports: The Winning Formula for Success‖
authored by noted Sports author Vinit Karnik.
Virat Kohli Becomes the 1st Indian To Reach 200
Million Followers On Instagram
Indian cricket star Virat Kohli has crossed the 200
million followers mark on the social media site
Instagram.
 With this, he became the first Indian to have 200
million followers on Instagram. Kohli is also the
third most followed sportsperson on Instagram.
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 Portugal football star Cristiano Ronaldo tops the
chart with 451 million followers, ahead of
Argentina football captain and FC Barcelona legend
Lionel Messi with 334 million followers.
Mithali Raj retires from international cricket
 India's legendary female player and ODI captain
Mithali Raj has retired from international cricket.
She has announced this on social media on 08 June,
2022. Mithali Raj made her debut for Team India
on 26 June, 1999.
 She was playing for the Indian team for the last 23
years. The 39-year-old Mithali has scored more
than 10,000 runs for Team India. She had played
the first World Cup for India in the year 2000. After
this, in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2022 also she
came on the field for Team India.
 Apart from Mithali Raj, Sachin Tendulkar is the
only cricketer for India to have played six World
Cups.
 After Mithali, Jhulan Goswami is the player for
India to play most World Cups. She has also
participated in five World Cups for India.
 Talking about Mithali Raj's cricket career, she has
scored 7805 runs in 232 ODIs.
 Mithali Raj holds the record for most wins as a
captain. She captained in 155 ODIs, winning 89 and
losing 63. Mithali Raj is the only captain in the
world who has captained more than 150 ODI
matches.
R Praggnanandhaa won Norway Chess Group A
open chess tournament
 Young Indian Grandmaster, R. Praggnanandhaa
emerged winner in the Norway Chess Group A
open chess tournament here with 7.5 points from
nine rounds. The 16-year-old GM, the top-seed, was
in fine form and remained unbeaten through the
nine rounds.
 He finished the tournament with a win over fellow
Indian V Praneeth, an International Master.
Praggnanandhaa finished a full point ahead of
second-placed IM Marsel Efroimski(Israel) and IM
Jung Min Seo (Sweden).
ISSF World Cup, Baku: India Finishes with Five
Medals
 The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)
World Cup 2022 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 India won a total of five medals, with 2 gold, 3
silver, and holds 5th position in overall
championship. • The Republic of Korea topped the
medal tally with 5 Gold and 3 Bronze
 Swapnil Kusale and Ashi Chouksey won gold 50m
rifle 3 positions (3P) mixed team shooting event
Indian medal winners:
Winners Category Medal
Swapnil Kusale and 50m rifle 3 Gold
Ashi Chouksey positions (3P)
mixed team
shooting
Elavenil Valarivan, Women‘s team‘s Gold
Ramita and Shreya 10m air rifle gold
Agrawal
Swapnil Kusale Individual men‘s Silver
50m rifle 3
positions
Anjum Moudgil Individual Silver
women‘s 50m
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rifle 3 positions
Swapnil Kusale, Men‘s rifle 3 Silver
Deepak Kumar and positions team
Goldie Gurjar
Saanapathi Gurunaidu won Gold medal at the IWF
Youth World Championships in Leon, Mexico on 12
June 2022.
 Saanapathi Gurunaidu is an Indian weightlifter.
Saanapathi Gurunaidu won the medal in the men's
55 kilogram event.
 Vijay Prajapati and Akansha Kishor Vyavhare won
silver medals on the opening day of the event. They
are also Indian weightlifters.
 Vijay finished second in the Men's 49 kilogram
event. Akanksha won the medal in the Women's 40
kilogram category.
Rahul Srivatshav has become India's 74th
Grandmaster.
 During the 9th Cattolica Chess Festival 2022 in
Italy, Rahul Srivatshav P. of Telangana has become
India's 74th Grandmaster, breaking the 2500 (Elo
points) barrier in live FIDE ratings.
 After drawing his 8th round game against
Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia at the Cattolica
event, the 19-year-old player reached the 2500 Elo
live rating mark.
 In January 2022, Bharath Subramaniyam became
the country's 73rd Grandmaster.
 The legendary Viswanathan Anand became India's
first Grandmaster in 1988.
Haryana Topped Khelo India Youth Games 2021
 On 13 June, 2022, the closing ceremony of Khelo
India Youth Games 2021 took place at
Indradhanush Auditorium, Panchkula, Haryana.
 Haryana has organized various competitions in
youth Games this time in 25 categories in
Panchkula, Ambala, Chandigarh, Delhi and
Shahabad.
4th Khelo India Youth Games 2021
Organizing Place - Panchkula, Haryana
Organizing Date – 4 June to 13 June, 2022
Mascot - Dhakad
Medal Table
1. Haryana (52 Gold, 39 Silver and 46 Bronze, a total of
137 medals)
2. Maharashtra (45 Gold, 40 Silver and 40 Bronze, total
125 medals)
3. Karnataka (22 Gold, 17 Silver and 28 Bronze, total 67
medals)
4. Manipur (19 Gold, 04 Silver and 05 Bronze, 28
medals in total)
 1st Edition 2018- New Delhi
 2nd Edition 2019- Pune, Maharashtra
 3rd Edition 2020- Guwahati, Assam
 The 2021 edition could not be organized due to
COVID, so the 2021 edition has been organized in
2022.
Max Verstappen won Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022
Red Bull‘s Max Verstappen won the Azerbaijan Formula
One Grand Prix 2022 (his fifth victory of the season).
Red Bull‟s Sergio Perez won Monaco F1 Grand Prix
2022
 The Red Bull racing driver Sergio Pérez (Mexican)
has won the Formula 1 (F1) Grand Prix (GP) De
Monaco 2022 with 25 points, held at Circuit de
Monaco, Monaco, Europe.
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 The Second position was occupied by the Ferrari  Iga Swiatek, the World No. 1 tennis player, won the
racing driver Carlos Sainz Jr. (Spanish) with 18 women's singles title in Paris by defeating US
points. The third position was taken by the Belgian- player Coco Gauf.
Dutch racing driver Max Emilian Verstappen who  21-year-old Polish player won her second Grand
drove for Red Bull Racing. Slam title.
FIH World Rankings: Indian men slip to 4th spot, List of Winners French Open 2022:
women rise to 6th Title Winner Runner up
 The Indian men‘s hockey team slipped to the fourth Men‘s Rafael Nadal Casper Ruud
spot but the women‘s side gained a place to rise to Singles (Spain) (Norwegian)
number six in the latest FIH World Rankings. Women‘s Iga Świątek Coco Gauff
 At the top, Australia (2842.258) and the Singles (Poland) (US)
Netherlands (3049.495) continued to be the world‘s Men‘s Marcelo Arévalo Ivan Dodig
number one ranked teams in the men‘s and doubles (El Salvador), (Croatian),
women‘s ranking. Jean-Julien Rojer Austin
Mens Hockey Asia Cup: India win bronze with 1-0 (Netherlands) Krajicek (US)
win over Japan,Korea won the title Women‘s Caroline Garcia Jessica Pegula
 India defeated Japan 1-0 to win bronze at the Men‘s doubles (French), Kristina (US), Coco
Hockey Asia Cup 2022 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Japan Mladenovic Gauff (US)
had seven penalty corners while India had just two (French)
but India led the circle penetration stats 11-10. Mixed Ena Shibahara Joran Vliegen
 South Korea defeated Malaysia to win Asia Cup doubles (JAPAN), Wesley (Belgium),
trophy Koolh of Ulrikke Eikeri
ISSF World Cup: Elavenil, Ramita and Shreya win (Netherlands) (Norway)
gold in women‟s 10m air rifle team competition Sakshi Malik, Divya Kakran, and Mansi Ahlawat
India opened their account at the ongoing ISSF World won gold medals at Bolat Turlykhanov Cup.
Cup with the trio of Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita and  At the Bolat Turlykhanov Cup wrestling
Shreya Agrawal claiming the gold medal in the 10m air tournament, Sakshi Malik won her first
rifle team women competition in Baku, Azerbaijan. international gold medal in over five years.
Wesley So wins the Norway Chess Blitz Tournament  Mansi won her gold against Kazakhstan's Emma
Reigning U.S. chess champion Wesley So recently won Tissina in the 57-kilogram category. Divya won her
the blitz event of the 10th Norway Chess Tournament in gold in the 68kg category.
style, defeating world champion Magnus Carlsen  Greco-Roman wrestler Neeraj won bronze in the
Para-canoeist Prachi Yadav clinches historic World 63kg category. India has now won a total of four
Cup bronze in Poland medals.
 Para-canoeist Prachi Yadav created history by Bolat Turlykhanov Cup:
becoming the first Indian to clinch a bronze medal  The Bolat Turlykhanov Cup 2022 is a wrestling
in women‘s VL2 200m event at the Paracanoe tournament held in Almaty, Kazakhstan from June
World Cup at Poznan, Poland. 2 to 5.
 Prachi bagged the bronze with a timing of 1:04.71 Harshada Sharad Garud became first Indian woman
seconds behind silver medallist Brianna Hennessy to win a gold medal at the IWF Junior World
of Canada (1:01.58s) and gold medallist Susan Championships
Seipel of Australia (1:01.54s).  Harshada Sharad Garud scripted history by being
India won its first ever medal at the IBSA Judo the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the
Grand Prix IWF Junior World Championships in Heraklion,
India won its first ever medal at the IBSA Judo Grand Greece.
Prix, held in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan.  She won the 45-kilogram weight category with a
The Indian Blind and Para Judo Association‘s Judoka total of 153 kilograms lifted, including 70
Kapil Parmar won the bronze medal in the event. kilograms in Snatch and 83 kilograms in Clean and
India defeated Poland by 6-4 in final to win inaugural Jerk.
FIH Hockey 5s championship. Adani Sports line acquires new franchise in UAE T20
 India won FIH Hockey 5s championship in Cricket League:
Lausanne in Switzerland on 04 June 2022.  Adani Sports line, a part of the Adani Group, made
 India‘s Raheel Mohammed was the tournament‘s a foray into franchise cricket by acquiring the rights
top goal scorer. to own and operate a franchise in UAE T20 League.
 He was awarded the best player award at the  Licensed by the Emirates Cricket Board, the UAE
Hockey 5s Lausanne 2022. T20 League will be an annual event that will feature
In the French Open, Rafael Nadal won the men‟s title six teams competing in a 34-match event.
and Iga Swiatek won the women‟s title. India won its first ever medal in the IBSA Judo
 Rafael Nadal of Spain has won the 14th singles title Grand Prix in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan
at the French Open by defeating Norway's Casper  In Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan, India earned its first
Ruud in the final. ever medal at the IBSA Judo Grand Prix.
 The 36-year-old Nadal has become Roland Garros'  The Indian Blind and Para Judo Association‘s
oldest champion with this victory. It's his 22nd Judoka Kapil Parmar deserves heartfelt praising for
Grand Slam title. bringing medals to the country. It‘s worth noting
that 18 of the 21 countries that competed won
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Switzerland, and India, earned their first medals in
the IBSA Grand Prix as a result of these.
Sergio Perez wins Monaco F1 Grand Prix 2022
Red Bull‘s Sergio Perez registered his first Formula One
win of the season in the rain-marred Monaco Grand Prix.
ISSF Junior World Cup 2022: India won 33 medals
 nternational Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)
Junior World Cup 2022 was held at Suhl in
Germany.
 The Indian contingent was led by ace shooters
Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary. At the ISSF
Junior World Cup 2022, the Indian junior shooting
team came in first position overall.
 They won 33 medals in total, including 13 gold, 15
silver, and 5 bronze. With four gold medals, Italy
came in second place.
Indian Boxer Sabari Jaishankar Wins WBC
Australasia Pro Title
Indian pro boxer Sabari Jaishankar beat Australian
champion Michael Pengue to lift the World Boxing
Council‘s Australasia Title in the Welterweight division
in Sydney.
Women's T20 Challenge: Supernovas Beat Velocity
In Nail-Biter To Win 3rd Title
Supernovas won the Women‘s T20 Challenge 2022 with
a four-run victory over Velocity in the title clash.
The Women‘s T20 Challenge is an Indian women‘s
cricket 20-20 tournament organised by BCCI.
Gujarat Titans Win IPL 2022 Title In Debut Season
 The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 ended with
Gujarat Titans (GT) lifting the trophy by defeating
inaugural champions Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the
Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad on May 29.
 The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, was the
15th edition of the professional Twenty20 cricket
league established by the Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI).
IPL 2022: List of All Prize Winners
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ICAR-NRCE Develops “Anocovax” India‟s 1st
COVID-19 Vaccine for Animals
 Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister, Ministry of
Agriculture & Farmers Welfare(MoAFW) launched
―Anocovax‖, India‘s first indigenously developed
COVID-19 vaccine for animals.
 The vaccine developed by the Indian Council of
Agricultural Research (ICAR)- National Research
Centre on Equines(NRCE) (Hisar, Haryana), is safe
for dogs, lions, leopards, mice and rabbits.
 Anocovax contains inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Delta
(COVID-19) antigen with Alhydrogel as an
adjuvant.
 This neutralises both Delta and Omicron variants of
the SARS-CoV-2. Union Minister also launched
‗CAN-CoV-2 ELISA kit‘, a sensitive and specific
nucleocapsid protein-based indirect (Enzyme-
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 Aramco Purple Cap Winner Of The Season:
Yuzvendra Chahal (27 Wickets)
 Aramco Orange Cap Winner Of The Season: Jos
Buttler (863 Runs)
 Player Of The Match (Final): Hardik Pandya
 Upstox Most Valuable Player Of The Season: Jos
Buttler
 IPL 2022 Emerging Player Of The Season: Umran
Malik
India beats Indonesia 16-0 in Asia Cup 2022 hockey
tournament
Indian men‘s team slammed six goals in the final quarter
to record a 16-0 win over Indonesia in a thrilling Pool A
game of the Asia Cup 2022 to qualify for the Super 4
stage of the Asia Cup.
IBA Women‟s World Boxing Championships:
Turkey topped medal tally of 2022
 The 12th edition of the 2022 International Boxing
Association (IBA) Women‘s World Boxing
Championship (WWBC) was held at Başakşehir
Youth and Sports Facility, Istanbul, Turkey.
 Belarusian and Russian boxers were not allowed to
compete at the event after a ban as a result of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
 The India Boxer Nikhat Zareen( from Nizamabad,
Telangana) won the gold in the flyweight (52kg)
division with 5-0 points against Thailand‘s Jitpong
Jutamas. With this win, she became the fifth Indian
women boxer to win the World Championship.
 The other two Indian women boxers Manisha Moun
(from Haryana) and Parveen Hooda(from Haryana)
had won the bronze medals in the 57kg and 63kg
categories respectively.
Shikhar Dhawan becomes first player to hit 700 fours
in IPL‟s history
 Punjab Kings opening batter Shikhar Dhawan has
become the first player to hit 700 fours in the history
of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Linked Immunoassay) ELISA kit, for antibody
detection against SARS-CoV-2 in canines.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has
developed „HomoSEP
 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has
developed ‗HomoSEP,‘ a robot to eliminate manual
scavenging in India, is all set for field deployment
in Tamil Nadu. The aim is to prevent deaths which
are reported every year across India due to manual
scavenging in septic tanks, despite bans and
prohibitory orders. The robot has been developed
over the last several years by Prabhu Rajagopal of
the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation, IIT
Madras and team.
LinkedIn Partners with UN Women to Create
Employment Opportunities for Women
 LinkedIn Corporation, the world‘s largest
professional network partnered with UN Women
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for the LINK Women project with an investment of
USD 5,00,000 (Rs 3.88 crore) to advance women‘s
economic empowerment.
 This is a 15-month pilot project launched in
Maharashtra, after which UN Women and LinkedIn
will incorporate lessons learned and evaluative
feedback to improve the programmes.
 LinkedIn Corporation: CEO – Ryan
Roslansky,Headquarters – California, United States
(US)
Indigenous metal 3D Printer for aerospace has been
developed by IIT Jodhpur.
 A metal 3D printer has been developed
indigenously by researchers at the Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur, for use in aerospace,
defence, and general engineering applications.
 The main goal of the project is to reduce the cost of
metal 3D printers and attract a broader variety of
consumers.
Miniproteins developed by IISc scientists may help to
prevent COVID infection.
 The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has
developed a new class of artificial peptides or
miniproteins that can render viruses like SARS-
CoV-2 inactive.
 The miniproteins can not only inhibit virus entry
into our cells but also clump virus particles
together, decreasing their potential to infect,
according to the study, which was published in the
journal Nature Chemical Biology.
Transfer of 10 in-orbit communication satellites from
the government to NSIL approved by Cabinet
 The transfer of ten in-orbit
communication satellites to
public sector business NSIL,
which is under the
administrative jurisdiction of
the Department of Space, has
been authorized by the Union
Cabinet.
 The cabinet also authorized
expanding NewSpace India
Limited‘s (NSIL) permitted
share capital from Rs 1,000
crore to Rs 7,500 crore. NSIL
was required under the space
sector reforms to conduct end-
to-end commercial space
operations and to operate as a
full-fledged satellite operator.
WhatsApp launched SMBSaathi Utsav to support
small businesses
 Whatsapp launched SMBSaathi Utsav initiative
which aims to support small businesses by helping
them to adopt digital mediums like Whatsapp
Business App.
 Utsav has started the initiative with a pilot in
Jaipur‘s Johri Bazaar and Bapu Bazaar where over
500 small businesses are being trained.
 The initiative was launched in the collaboration
with Josh Talks. The SMBSaathi Utsav is the
second phase of the SMBSaathi campaign.
DAVINCI Mission: NASA‟s Venus Mission is Set to
Launch in 2029
 NASA‘s Venus Mission, Deep Atmosphere Venus
Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and
AUGUST – 2022
Imaging (DAVINCI) mission named after visionary
Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da
Vinci(Italy) is tentatively scheduled to launch in
June 2029 and enter the atmosphere of Venus in
June 2031.
 This will be the 1st mission to Venus that will
incorporate science-driven fly-bys and an
instrumented descent sphere into a unified
architecture.
Internet Explorer will be shut down from June 15
 Internet Explorer, the world's most successful
browser till date, will retire on 15 June, 2022.
Internet Explorer is a web browser created by
Microsoft in the year 1995 that used to be seen as
the default browser on Windows computers until a
few years ago. In the year 2021, the company
announced its closure.
 At one time Internet Explorer was the dominant
web browser in the world. For this reason, 11
versions of Internet Explorer were launched at that
time. Later people got many more options like
Google Chrome.
 After which Internet Explorer lagged behind in the
world of web browsers. Microsoft also focused on
the new web browser 'Microsoft Edge' instead of
paying attention to it.
 Currently Internet Explorer has less than 1% users
while Google Chrome is on top with 69% users.
Cochin Shipyard to build India‟s first home made
Hydrogen-fuelled electric vessel
 Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister for Ports,
Shipping and Waterways, announced that the
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways would
develop and build India‘s first indigenous
hydrogen-fueled electric vessels at Cochin Shipyard
Limited (CSL), kicking off the country‘s efforts
toward green shipping.
 At a session titled Green Shipping in India – 2022,
organised by the Ministry in collaboration with the
shipyard and The Energy and Resources Institute,
he also revealed the government‘s intention for
developing such vessels in order to stay up with the
Global Maritime Green Transitions.
 Fuel Cell Electric Vessel (FCEV), a hydrogen fuel
cell vessel based on Low-Temperature Proton
Exchange Membrane Technology (LT-PEM), is
expected to cost around 17.50 crore, with the Centre
funding 75 percent of the cost.
EKA launches its First Electric Bus EKA E9
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 EKA, an electric vehicle manufacturing, and
technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle
Industries have launched its first 9-meter pure
electric and zero-emission bus, EKA E9, in Pune.
 EKA E9″ is the first electric bus with the ―Made-in-
India‖ tag.
PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer commissioned at
IIT, Gandhinagar
 Param Ananta, is a state of the art supercomputer at
IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under the
National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
 It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology (MeitY) and the
Department of Science and Technology (DST),
which was commissioned. This indigenous software
stack is developed by C-DAC and is a Make in
India initiative.
 A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was
signed between IIT Gandhinagar and the Centre for
Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) on
October 12, 2020, to establish this 838 TeraFlops
Supercomputing Facility under NSM.
Instagram Introduces AMBER Alerts to help find
missing children
 Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has
launched AMBER(America‘s Missing: Broadcast
Emergency Response) Alerts on the platform that
will allow people to see and share notices of
missing children in their area.
 It was developed in partnership with organizations
like the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children (NCMEC) in the US, the International
Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, the
National Crime Agency in the UK, the Attorney
General‘s Office in Mexico, the Australian Federal
Police and more.
 The system was named after Amber Rene
Hagerman, a nine-year-old girl abducted and
murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas.
ISRO chairman inaugurates new spacecraft
manufacturing facility
Dr S Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO), inaugurated ANANTH
Technologies‘ spacecraft manufacturing unit at
Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB)
Aerospace Park. The new state-of-the-art spacecraft
manufacturing facility can conduct assembly integration
and testing of four large spacecraft simultaneously.
US Woman Gets New Ear Made of Her Own 3D-
Printed Cells
 Recently, a 20-year-old woman received a 3-D
printed ear implant as she was born with a small
and misshapen right ear.
 The 3-D printed ear implant was made from her
own cells.
 The ear was developed by 3DBio, the first company
which implant 3D-bioprinted living tissues in
humans.
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Bengaluru-based Ambee Joins NASA‟s Pace Mission
as an Early Adopter
 Datair Technology Pvt Ltd (Ambee), has joined the
National Aeronautics & Space Administration‘s
(NASA‘s) PACE elongates to the Plankton,
Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission as an
early adopter.
 Ambee‘s air quality datasets are primed to become
more accurate with access to NASA‘s hyperspectral
and polarimetric PACE data.
IIT Bombay and IMD signed MOU to develop user-
friendly weather forecasting app
 The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay)
has partnered with the Ministry of Earth Sciences‘
India Meteorological Department (IMD) to develop
climate solutions for stakeholders at the village,
city, and district levels.
 IIT Bombay is intending to build a Centre of
Excellence (CoE) in Climate Services and Solutions
within the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate
Studies (IDPCS), given the country‘s ambitious
goal of reaching net zero by 2070.
ISRO plans to build twin satellites, DISHA-L&H, to
study the upper atmosphere
 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
plans to build an identical pair of satellites named
DISHA (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-
thermosphere System at High Altitudes) L&H to
study the physics and chemistry of the upper
atmosphere including the distribution of
temperature, density, and chemical constituents, and
the chemical reactions that occur there.
 The Satellites would be launched in low earth orbit
about 500 kilometers above the earth.
 About ISRO :Established: 15 August 1969
Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Chairman: Sreedhara Panicker Somanath
India‟s upcoming AI-powered wargame center –
Project WARDEC
 The Army Training Command signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with
Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University
(RRU) to develop a ‗Wargame Research and
Development Centre‘(prototype name ‗WARDEC‘)
in New Delhi.
 RRU will collaborate with Tech Mahindra to
develop the center over the next 3 to 4 months.
 It will be used by the Army to train its soldiers and
test their strategies through ―metaverse-enabled
gameplay‖.
Param Porul supercomputer inaugurated at NIT
Tiruchirappalli
 A supercomputer named Param Porul was
inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli under National
Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The NSM is a
joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY) and the
Department of Science and Technology (DST).
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The Central Government amended the regulations
related to the appointment of CDS
 The central government can appoint both retired
and serving officers for the new Chief of Defense
Staff (CDS).
 The regulations of the three armed forces related to
the appointment of Chief of Defense Staff (CDS)
have been changed, under which a serving or retired
officer of lieutenant general or general level below
the age of 62 years in the three services can be
appointed as CDS.
 The government has widened the scope of selection
of CDS, now serving or retired Vice Admirals and
Air Marshals have also been included in the
selection pool. With the new rule, the retired Army
Chief, Navy Chief and Air force Chief will almost
be out of the race to become CDS as a condition has
now been added that the age should be less than 62
years at the time of appointment. The tenure of the
three service chiefs is three years, but if they turn
62 before that, they have to retire.
 The post has been lying vacant since the death of
the country's first CDS General Bipin Rawat in an
air crash on December 8 last year.
 The highest officer of the Army is the Chief of
Defense Staff (CDS). He is a four star officer and it
was considered one of the biggest reforms in the
higher military structure of the country.
India Successfully Test-fired Prithvi-II Ballistic
Missile from Odisha Coast
India has successfully test-fired Prithvi-II, a short-range
surface-to-surface ballistic missile, at Chandipur,
Odisha.Prithvi-II is an indigenously developed surface-
to-surface short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) with a
range of about 250-350 km and it can carry one ton
payload.
Indian Women Soldiers Participated in Four Day
'Women's Peace and Security Seminar' in Mongolia
Indian women soldiers participated in a four-day
'Women's Peace and Security Seminar' in Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia.
The program was launched on 16 June, 2022 and has
been organized under the guidance of Ukhna
Khurelsukh, President of Mongolia.
Indian Navy & NCMRWF Inks MoU for
Cooperation on Numerical Model-Based Applications
in Meteorology and Oceanology
 The Indian Navy and the National Centre for
Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF)
of the Ministry of Earth Sciences(MoES), signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
―Cooperation on Numerical Model-Based
Applications in Meteorology and Oceanology.‖
 Under this collaboration, the Indian Navy and
NCMRWF will share expertise in the domains of
weather and ocean modelling, coupled modelling,
data assimilation, ensemble forecasting, and
satellite data utilisation, with the intent of keeping
both organisations up to date with rapid
development.
Indian Coast Guard inducts new Advanced Light
Helicopter Squadron 840 CG
 In the Indian Coast Guard, a new air squadron
known as 840 Squadron was established in
Chennai, with an Advanced Light Helicopter
(ALH) Mark-III aircraft as its first aircraft.
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 The ALH MK- III is powered by two Shakti
engines and is equipped with surveillance radar,
electro optic pod, medical urgent care unit, high-
intensity searchlight, infrared suppressor, heavy
machine gun, and glass cockpit.
NATO Holds Naval Exercise BALTOPS On Baltic
Sea With Finland & Sweden
 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
launched a naval exercise BALTOPS 22 on the
Baltic Sea.
 14 NATO allies (Türkiye, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia,
Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the
UK, and the US.), 2 NATO partner nations (Finland
and Sweden), over 45 ships, more than 75 aircraft,
and approximately 7,000 personnel will participate
in the 51st iteration of the premier maritime-
focused exercise from June 5-17,2022.
 BALTOPS 22 is scheduled to end in the German
port of Kiel on June 17, 2022.
NATO :Established: 4 April 1949, Headquarters:
Brussels, Belgium
Secretary-General: Jens Stoltenberg, Member States: 30
(27 European, one transcontinental, and two North
American)
Indian Army Contingent participates in the “Khaan
Quest 2022” exercise
 Indian Army participates in a multinational exercise
―Ex Khaan Quest 2022‖ where 16 other countries
also took part in Mongolia. President of Mongolia,
Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh inaugurated the Exercise as
the host.
 Indian Army is represented by a contingent from
the LADAKH SCOUTS.
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-4
successfully test-fired
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-4,
successfully tested. A successful training launch of
Agni-4, was carried out from APJ Abdul Kalam Island in
Odisha.
Defense Minister of India and Vietnam signed „Joint
Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence
Partnership towards 2030‟.
 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also holds bilateral
talks with his Vietnamese counterpart in Hanoi. It
will help in enhancing the defence cooperation
between both countries.
 It is an important step towards simplifying
procedures for mutually beneficial logistic support.
 Both countries agreed on the early finalization of a
500 million dollar Defence Line of Credit to
Vietnam.
 India announced to gift two simulators and a
monetary grant for setting up of Language and IT
Lab at the Air Force Officers Training School.
Defence Minister increased funding for the DRDO‟s
TDF scheme to Rs 50 crore
 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh authorized an
increase in financing for MSMEs and startups under
the Ministry of Defence‘s Technology
Development Fund (TDF) plan.
 The initiative, which encourages the development
of indigenous components, products, systems, and
technologies, will now have a maximum project
value of Rs 50 crore, up from Rs 10 crore
previously.
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India to participate in world's largest maritime
exercise 'Rim of the Pacific'
 India has decided to participate in the world's
largest naval maritime exercise 'Rim of the Pacific
2022' (RIMPAC) to be led by the US. The 28th
edition of Naval Maritime Exercise will showcase
its naval prowess in Honolulu and San Diego from
29 June to 4 August. Hosted by the US Indo-Pacific
Command, India is sending a stealth frigate and a P-
8I aircraft for this exercise.
 The biennial maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific
(RIMPAC) was first conducted in 1971. This year's
multinational maritime exercise will be the 28th
edition.
38th India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol started in
the Andaman Sea and Straits of Malacca.
 38th India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (IND-
INDO CORPAT) involves Indian Navy Units of
Andaman & Nicobar Command (ANC) and the
Indonesian Navy.
 It is being carried out from 13 to 24 June 2022 in
the Andaman Sea and the Straits of Malacca.
 Straits of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water
between Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian
island of Sumatra.
Bharat Dynamics signs deal with Defence Ministry
for ASTRA MK-1 BVR missile
 The Ministry of Defence has signed a deal worth Rs
2,971 crore with Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
for the supply of Astra Mk-1 Beyond Visual Range
(BVR) Air to Air Missile (AAM) and associated
equipment for the Indian Air Force & Indian Navy.
 Astra Mk-1 is the first such indigenous missile to
enter the service of the Indian armed forces, which
has always depended on Russian (mainly R 73 and
R 77) and French (Mica and Meteor) air-to-air
missiles.
 Astra Mk 1 has a range of about 110 kilometers.It
has a maximum speed of Mach 4.5 (over 5,500
kmph).
NCC „Puneet Sagar Abhiyan‟
 NCC started the ‗Puneet Sagar Abhiyan‘ on May
30, 2022. It continued till June 5, 2022, that marks
the World Environment Day.
 Around 74,000 cadets from 10 States and 4 Union
Territories participated in the campaign.
 The Puneet Sagar Abhiyan was launched by NCC,
in a bid to clean Sea Shores or Beaches and other
water bodies including rivers & lakes, by removing
plastic & other waste.
Indian Navy commissions naval air squadron
comprising ALH MK III
 Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 325, operating
the indigenously built ALH MK III aircraft, was
commissioned into the Indian Navy by Lieutenant
General Ajai Singh, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal holder
and Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar at
an impressive ceremony held at INS Utkrosh, Port
Blair of Andaman & Nicobar island.
 The state-of-the-art multi-role helicopter has been
developed and manufactured by Hindustan
Aeronautical Limited (HAL), Bengaluru,
Karnataka.
Border coordination conference between BSF and
BGB begins in Bangladesh:
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 The India-Bangladesh Border Coordination
Conference was opened in Sylhet by Inspector
General BSF Regional Commander BGB.
 According to an official press release from the
Bangladesh Border Guard (BBG), the four-day
workshop will end on June 2.
 The Indian team traveled to Bangladesh through the
Integrated Testing Station (ICP) in Dawki,
Meghalaya, where they met with senior BGB staff.
AF heritage centre to come up in Chandigarh
 A heritage centre to showcase the role of the Indian
Air Force in various wars and its overall
functioning will come up at Chandigarh.
 The ‗IAF Heritage Centre‘ will be set up jointly by
the force and the Chandigarh administration. An
MoU between the Union Territory of Chandigarh
and the IAF for setting up of the centre was inked.
INS Nishank and Akshay decommissioned after
rendering 32 years of glorious service
Indian Naval Ships (INS)-‗Nishank‘ and ‗Akshay‘ were
decommissioned after rendering 32 years of glorious
service to the nation. The ceremony was conducted at
Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
India-Bangladesh joint military Sampriti-X exercise
begins
 India-Bangladesh bilateral defence cooperation, a
joint military training exercise Ex SAMPRITI-X is
being conducted at Jashore Military Station in
Bangladesh from 05 June to 16 June 2022.
 The aim of the exercise is to strengthen
interoperability between the two armies and to
understand each other‘s tactical drills and
operational techniques.
India-Israel Vision Statement on Defence
Cooperation
 India and Israel have signed a ‗vision Statement‘
with the aim of further deepening the long-standing
defence cooperation between both nations. This
statement was signed at a meeting held between
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Benny Gantz,
defence minister of Israel. Israel‘s defence minister
emphasized the need to invest further in defence
cooperation between both countries.
Indian Navy successfully tests surface to air missile
system from warship
The Indian Navy successfully tested its ship-based
surface-to-air missile (SAM) system by taking down a
low flying target.
The surface-to-air missile is also called a ground-to-air
missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon
(SAGW).
INS Gomati was decommissioned at the Naval
Dockyard at Mumbai
INS Gomati was decommissioned at the Naval Dockyard
under the command of Captain Sudip Malik. INS
Gomati derives her name from the vibrant river Gomti
and was commissioned on 16 April 1988 by then
Defence Minister, KC Pant, at Mazgaon Dock Ltd,
Bombay. The third ship of the Godavari class guided-
missile frigates, INS Gomati was also the oldest warrior
of the western fleet when decommissioned.
GRSE launches Indian Navy survey vessel „INS
Nirdeshak‟
 Nirdeshak, the second of the four Survey Vessels
(Large) (SVL) projects being built by Garden
Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in
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collaboration with L&T shipbuilding for the Indian
Navy was launched, at Kattupalli, Chennai.
 The ship has taken its name from erstwhile
Nirdeshak which was also an Indian Naval Survey
ship and was decommissioned after 32 years of
glorious service in December 2014.
 Part construction of three out of four ships of SVL
is being undertaken at L&T, Kattupalli as part of a
collaborative approach between GRSE and L&T
shipbuilding.
 The contract for building four SVL ships was
signed between MoD and GRSE, Kolkata on
October 30, 2018. The first of class ship
‗Sandhayak‘ was launched in December 2021 at
GRSE, Kolkata.
26-year-old Abhilasha Barak becomes the Indian
Army‟s first woman combat aviator
Haryana‘s Captain Abhilasha Barak has become the first
woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as a
RANKING & ORDER
Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
released the fourth State Food Safety Index
 Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
released the 4th State Food Safety Index (SFSI) of
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
(FSSAI) on the occasion of World Food Safety
Day. FSSAI was launched from 2018-19 with an
objective to bring about a competitive and positive
change in the food safety ecosystem in the country.
 Among the large states, Tamil Nadu topped
the rankings, followed by Gujarat and
Maharashtra.
 Among smaller states, Goa topped the list
followed by Manipur and Sikkim.
 Among the Union Territories, Jammu and
Kashmir topped the list followed by New
Delhi and Chandigarh.
India ranked 121st in the Global Sustainable
Development Report 2022
 The Global Sustainable Development Report,
2022 was released in June 2022. In this
report, India is ranked 121 out of 163
countries with a score of 60.32. It was ranked
117th in the year 2020 and 120th in 2021.
Performance of countries
1. Finland (86.51 score)
2. Denmark
3. Sweden
Sustainable Development Report
 It is a global assessment of the progress of countries
towards achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals. It is published by a group of independent
experts at the Sustainable Development Solutions
Network (SDSN).
 It was launched by SDSN in the year 2012 to
mobilize scientific and technical expertise on a
global scale to promote solutions to practical
problems in the area of sustainable development
and to implement the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Following its adoption, SDSN is
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combat aviator after successfully completing her
training. She was awarded the coveted wings along with
36 other army pilots by the DG and Colonel
Commandant of Army Aviation in Nashik.
Third edition of India-Bangladesh Navy exercise
begins at Mongla port
 The third edition of Indian Navy (IN) – Bangladesh
Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise ‗Bongosagar‘
commenced at Port Mongla, Bangladesh on 24 May
2022. The Harbour Phase of the exercise begins
from 24-25 May which will be followed by a Sea
Phase in the Northern Bay of Bengal from 26-27
May.
 Exercise Bongosagar is aimed at developing a high
degree of interoperability and joint operational skills
through the conduct of a wide spectrum of maritime
exercises and operations between the two navies.
now committed to supporting the implementation of
the SDGs at the national and international level.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh to release second
edition of the National e-Governance Service Delivery
Assessment 2021 on 13th June.
 This report has been prepared to assess states, UTs,
and Central Ministries‘ effectiveness in delivering
online services to citizens.
 The report will also give suggestions to
governments to further enhance
their e-Governance service
delivery systems.
 National e-Governance
Service Delivery Assessment
(NeSDA) was formed in 2019 by
the Department of
Administrative Reforms &
Public Grievances (DARPG).
 NeSDA 2021 has
covered seven sectors- Finance,
Labour & Employment,
Education, Local Governance &
Utility Services, Social Welfare,
Environment and Tourism
sectors.
 Jammu & Kashmir is
on the top among the Union
Territories in the ranking of
Portals.
 In the Remaining States – Group A category,
Kerala ranked the highest, followed by Tamil Nadu
and Punjab.
 Among North-East and Hill States, Nagaland is on
the top while Meghalaya and Assam are on second
and third spot respectively.
India ranked worst in the world in terms of
environmental performance in 2022
 In the 2022 Environment Performance Index (EPI),
an analysis by Yale and Columbia University
researchers that gives a data-driven evaluation of
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the situation of sustainability around the world,
India came in last out of 180 countries.
 Climate change, environmental public health, and
biodiversity are among the 40 performance factors
used by the EPI to rank 180 nations.
 With an overall score of 18.9, India came in last,
while Denmark came in first as the world‘s most
sustainable country.
QS World University Rankings 2023 Released
 The QS World University Rankings 2023 has been
released on June 08, 2022. This is the 19th edition
of the ranking of the world's most consulted
international universities. About 1500 institutes
from around the world are included in this ranking
of this year.
Top rank
 America's Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) has topped the list for the 11th time in a row.
Cambridge University (UK) is in second place and
Stanford University (USA) is in third place. Oxford
University (UK) has reached the fourth position.
Indian Institute
 In the case of India, a total of 41 Indian universities
have made it to the rankings.
 Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru –
Global Rank 155
 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay –
Global Rank 172
 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi – Global
Rank 174
US Treasury Report: India Among 12 Economies On
Currency „Monitoring List‟
 According to the semiannual Report of the United
States(US) Department of the Treasury –
―Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of
Major Trading Partners of the United States‖ India
is one of the 12 major economies that merit close
attention to their currency practices and
macroeconomic policies.
 With USD 569.9 billion in Foreign Exchange(FX)
Reserves, India has the 4th largest foreign exchange
after China (USD 3.2 trillion), Japan (USD 1.2
trillion) and Switzerland (USD 1 trillion).
India jumped one position to 7th among the top
recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI)
 According to the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD), India jumped
one position to 7th among the top recipients of
foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last calendar
year (2021) despite FDI inflows into the country
declining.
 In its latest World Investment Report, UNCTAD
said FDI inflows into India declined to $45 billion
in 2021 from $64 billion in the preceding year.
Outward FDI from India rose 43 percent to $15.5
billion in 2021.
 While the United States ($367 billion) remained the
top recipient of FDI, China ($181 billion) and Hong
Kong ($141 billion) also retained second and third
position, respectively. Among the top 10 host
economies for FDI, only India saw a decline in its
FDI inflows.
Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia to become India‟s 2nd
biggest oil supplier
 Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become
India‘s second-biggest supplier of oil behind Iraq as
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refiners snap up Russian crude available at a deep
discount following the war in Ukraine.
 Indian refiners bought about 25 million barrels of
Russian oil in May, or more than 16 per cent of all
their oil imports. Russian-origin crude hit 5 per cent
of India‘s total seaborne imports in April for the
first time, rising from under 1% throughout 2021
and Q1 2022.
 After the U.S. and China, India is the world‘s third-
largest consumer of oil, over 85 per cent of which is
imported.
 Iraq remained the top supplier to India in May and
Saudi Arabia is now the third biggest supplier.
India ranked 37th in the World Competitiveness
Index 2022
 India has ranked 37th in the World Competitiveness
Index 2022.
 Global Performers:-1. Denmark, 2:-Switzerland
 The World Competitiveness Index is compiled by
the Institute for Management Development (IMD).
Global Startup Ecosystem ranking: Kerala ranks top
in Asia in global report
 Kerala has been ranked first in Asia in Affordable
Talent in Global Startup Ecosystem Report
(GSER).
 The State is also ranked the fourth in the GSER
global ranking, drawn up jointly by policy advisory
and research organization Startup Genome and
Global Entrepreneurship Network.
SIPRI Yearbook 2022 Report Released, Russia Has
Most Nuclear Weapons
 The 'SIPRI Yearbook 2022' report was released by
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI).
 This report assesses the current state of arms,
disarmament and international security. Russia and
the US together have more than 90% nuclear
weapons.
 There are a total of 12,705 nuclear weapons in the
world. Of these, Russia has the highest number of
5977 while America has 5428. In terms of nuclear
weapons, China is at number three, which has 350
nuclear weapons. India has 160 nuclear weapons.
Pakistan has 165 nuclear weapons.
 According to the report, nine nuclear-armed
countries (the United States, Russia, the United
Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and
North Korea) continue to modernize their nuclear
arsenals.
 The five largest arms importers were Saudi Arabia,
India, Egypt, Australia and China, accounting for
36% of total arms imports.
 The United States, Russia, France, Germany and
China, among the five largest supplying countries,
accounted for 76% of total arms exports from 2016
to 2020.
 SIPRI was established in the year 1966 in
Stockholm (Sweden).
India ranks third in the world in terms of renewable
energy
Recently the 'Renewable Energy Policy Network for the
21st Century' (REN21) has released the 'Renewable
Global Status Report 2022' (GSR 2022).
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1. Renewable Energy- India ranks third in renewable
energy installations after China and Russia in the year
2021.
Wind Energy- India ranks third globally after China,
USA and Germany in terms of total installed wind power
capacity (40.1 GW).
3. Hydropower Capacity- India added 843 MW of
hydroelectric power capacity in the year 2021, taking the
total capacity to 45.3 GW.
4. New Solar Photovoltaic Capacity – India is the second
largest market in Asia for new solar photovoltaic
capacity and third in the world (additional 13 GW in
2021).
5. Total Installations- India has moved to the fourth
position in the total installations (60.4 GW) capacity,
beating Germany (59.2 GW).
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC COP27)
The 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP
27) to the UNFCCC will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh,
Egypt. Chair of COP 27 – Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime
Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt COP27 President
– Designate – Dr. Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Nearly 5mn in India displaced due to Climate
Change, Disasters in 2021: UNHCR
According to the annual Global Trends Report by the
United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published in June
2022, nearly 5 million people in India were internally
displaced due to climate change and disasters in 2021.
On the global front, over 100 million people were forced
to displace in 2021 due to violence, human rights abuses,
food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and
other emergencies from Africa to Afghanistan.
The United States of America (USA) was the world's
largest recipient of new individual applications
(188,900), followed by Germany (148,200), Mexico
(132,700), Costa Rica (108,500) and France (90,200).
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring
Centre (IDMC), in 2021, there were 23.7 million new
internal displacements globally due to disasters. This
represented a decrease of seven million, or 23%,
compared to the previous year. ii.The largest
displacements due to disasters in 2021 occurred in China
(6.0 million), the Philippines (5.7 million) and India (4.9
million).
Burgundy Private Hurun India 500-SR: RIL becomes
India‟s most valuable company followed by TCS &
HDFC Bank
 According to the Burgundy Private Hurun India 500
Special Report(SR), Reliance Industries
Limited(RIL) has become India‘s most valuable
company with a value of Rs 18.9 lakh crore
followed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with
Rs 12.9 lakh crore and HDFC Bank with Rs 7.7
lakh crore.
 Burgundy Private, a private banking platform of
Axis Bank, and Hurun India launched ―Burgundy
Private Hurun India 500 Special Report(SR)‖ a 6-
month update (from 30th October 2021 to 30th
April 2022) of the 2021 Burgundy Private Hurun
India 500, a list of 500 most valuable non-state-
owned companies in India, released in December
2021
India Ranked 135th in Global Peace Index, 2022
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 According to the Global Peace Index, 2022 India is
ranked 135th out of 163 countries, while India's
ranking was 138th in the year 2021.
 According to the index, Iceland is the most peaceful
country in the world and Afghanistan the most
disturbed.
 The Global Peace Index (GPI) was started by Steve
Killelea, an Australian technology entrepreneur and
philanthropist. This index is released by the
Australian think tank Institute for Economics and
Peace.
countries are ranked according to the following three
main conditions-
1. Social Security and Level of Security
2. On the basis of internal and external conflicts taking
place in the countries
3. Based on the extent of militarization
India has Ranked 68th in Overall Skill Proficiency
Globally; Switzerland tops
 United States based Coursera‘s latest annual Global
Skills Report (GSR) 2022 reveals that India ranked
at the 68th position globally and Asia‘s 19th
position in overall skills proficiency.
 The report named Switzerland in the number one
spot in the second consecutive year in overall skills.
 The report benchmarks three most in-demand skill
areas including business, technology, and data
science.
 India‘s West Bengal state ranked No.1 in terms of
skills proficiency across the three domains and also
earned a perfect 100% proficiency in more than 10
skills, across the three domains, such as leadership
& management, human resources, cloud computing,
computer programming, ML, and data analysis
Forbes Global 2000 list – RIL top-ranked Indian firm
The 20th annual Forbes Global 2000 list of public
companies was released, according to that Billionaire
Mukesh Ambani‘s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)
climbed two spots to No. 53 followed by State Bank of
India at No. 105, HDFC Bank at No. 153 and ICICI
Bank at No. 204.
Top 3 Global companies on the Forbes list :
 Berkshire Hathaway, USA
 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC),
China
 Aramco, Saudi Arabia
THE Asia University Rankings 2022
 The 2022 edition of Asia University Rankings was
released by the Times Higher Education (THE).
 India is the third most-represented country in this
2022 rankings with 71 institutions making this list.
 The only institute that has made it to the top 50 on
the list is the Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore with a rank of 42.
 Japan is the most-represented nation on this list,
with 118 institutions making it this year, up from
116 in 2021.
 The top two universities on this list are from China
for the third consecutive year. They are Tsinghua
and Peking universities holding the first and second
places.
 The top two universities on this list are from China
for the third consecutive year. They are Tsinghua
and Peking universities holding the first and second
places
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Bloomberg Billionaire Index: Mukesh Ambani
Becomes Asia‟s Richest Man Surpasses Gautam
Adani
 According to Bloomberg Billionaire Index As of
June 3, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman
and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has
regained the position of India as well as Asia‘s
richest man, replacing Adani Group Chairman
Gautam Adani.
 Mukesh Ambani‘s net worth has risen to USD 99.7
billion, while Gautam Adani‘s net worth stood at
USD 98.7 billion.
 As per the index, Mukesh Ambani is ranked the 8th
richest person in the world & Adani is ranked 9th
position.
Top 5 in Bloomberg Billionaire Index, As of June 3 :
 Tesla CEO Elon Musk – $227 billion
 Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos – $149 billion
 LVMH‘s Bernard Arnault – $138 billion
 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates – $124 billion
 Legendary investor Warren Buffett – $114 billion.
The world‟s richest man Elon Mask, was the highest-
paid CEO of 2021
 Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire CEO of Tesla and
SpaceX highest-paid executive in the world. Musk
has topped the Fortune‘s new list of the most highly
compensated CEOs on the Fortune 500.
Top 10 most highly compensated CEOs:
 Elon Musk, Tesla: USD 23.5 Billion
 Tim Cook, Apple: USD 770.5 Million
 Jensen Huang, NVIDIA: USD 561 Million
 Reed Hastings, Netflix: USD 453.5 Million
 Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals:
USD 452.9 Million
 Marc Benioff, Salesforce: USD 439.4 Million
 Satya Nadella, Microsoft: USD 309.4 Million
 Robert A. Kotick, Activision Blizzard: USD 296.7
Million
 Hock E. Tan, Broadcom: USD 288 Million
 Safra A. Catz, Oracle: USD 239.5 Million
ICMR Report: India‟s cancer burden to rise to 29.8
million in 2025
 According to a report by the Indian Council for
Medical Research (ICMR) on the ‗Burden of
cancers in India‘, The number of Indians suffering
from cancer is projected to increase to 29.8 million
in 2025 from 26.7 million in 2021.
 The findings of the report have been published in
BMC Cancer Journal.
 The report estimates the cancer incidences in Years
of Life Lost (YLLs), Years Lived with Disability
(YLDs), and Disability-Adjusted Life Years
(DALYs) from 2021 to 2025.
 In 2021, The highest incidence was noted in the
North (2,408 patients per 100,000) and the
Northeast (2,177 per 100,000).
BOOK & AUTHOR
Book Author
'The Constitution of India: Ram Bahadur
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 Mizoram, Delhi, and Meghalaya had the highest
cancer Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and
the most vulnerable demographic are people in the
65–69-year age group.
Global Food Policy Report: IFPRI
 Recently, the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) has released Global Food Policy
Report: Climate Change & Food Systems, showing
India‘s risk for hunger could increase 23% by 2030
due to Climate Change.
 India‘s food production could drop 16% and the
number of those at risk for hunger could increase
23% by 2030 due to climate change.
 The number of Indians at risk from hunger in 2030
is expected to be 73.9 million in 2030 and, if the
effects of climate change were to be factored in, it
would increase to 90.6 million.
 The aggregate food production index would, under
similar conditions, drop from 1.6 to 1.5.
 The average temperature across India is projected to
rise by between 2.4°C and 4.4°C by 2100.
Similarly, summer heat waves are projected to triple
by 2100 in India.
Global:
 Baseline projections indicate that global food
production will grow by about 60% over 2010
levels by 2050 in the context of climate change.
 Meat production is projected to double in South
Asia and West and Central Africa by 2030 and
triple by 2050.
 Despite this growth, per capita consumption levels
in developing countries will remain less than half of
those in developed countries.
 The demand for processed foods also shows up in
the growing production of oil crops: by 2050
production is expected to more than double in
Southeast Asia and West and Central Africa.
India beats China to become the world‟s third
strongest air force in the Global Air Powers Ranking
for 2022
 The Indian Air Force (IAF) ranks third on World
Air Power Index in terms of Fighting strength of
different air force services of different countries. In
2022, the world directory of modern military
Aircraft (WDMMA) published the Global Air
Power Rankings. In this report, the Indian Air Force
is placed in third place, above the Chinese Air
force, or People‘s Libertarian Army Air
Force(PLAAF), the French Air and Space Power,
and the Israeli Aviation Based Armed Forces.
WEF‟s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index
2021: India Ranks 54
 The World Economic Forum‘s (WEF) ranked India
54th position (down from 46th in 2019)
 Japan has topped (1) the global chart and the bottom
position (117) is occupied by the country Chad.
The Untold Story' Rai.
―Gautam Adani: The Man RN Bhaskar
Who Changed India‖
'Ashtang Yoga' Dr Sonu Phogat.
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 Dr Jitendra Singh, Ministry of Science &
Technology (MoST) released Aarohan
 Union Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Dr Jitendra Singh, Ministry of Science &
Technology (MoST) released Aarohan, a
Coffee Table Book and e-book on the
progressive contribution of the Income Tax
(IT) Department over the decades.
 Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Ministry of
Finance released an e-book titled
Pratidhwani
 Union Minister of State (MoS) Dr. Bhagwat
Kishanrao Karad, Ministry of Finance released
an e-book titled Pratidhwani that highlights
policy initiatives and changes in IT
Department during the period 2000 to 2022. It
is divided into 4 chapters.
 Ruskin Bond‟s book titled „Listen to Your
Heart: The London Adventure‟ Released
AUGUST – 2022
 A new book titled ―Listen to Your Heart: The
London Adventure‖ authored by Ruskin Bond,
was published by Penguin Random House
India (PRHI) on Ruskin Bond‘s 88th birthday
(19th May 2022)
 Dharmendra Pradhan released the books
'Loktantra Ke Swar' and 'The Republican
Ethic'
 Union Education and Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship Minister, Dharmendra
Pradhan along with Union Minister for
Information & Broadcasting and Sports
Anurag Thakur released books ‗Loktantra ke
Swar‘ and ‗The Republican Ethic, having
selected speeches of the President of India
Ram Nath Kovind.

DAY & DAYS

Assembly in
May 25 World Thyroid THEME:―It‘s New York on
Awareness Day not you. It‘s October 4.
your thyroid‖. June 4 International Day of The day
May 25-31 International Week of Innocent Children originally
Solidarity with the Victims of focused on the
People of Non-Self- Aggression children
Governing Territories affected by the
May 25 International Missing 1982 Lebanon
Children‘s Day 2022 War.
May 29 International Day of Theme:- June 5 World Environment UN General
UN Peacekeepers ―People. Day Assembly
2022 Peace. established
Progress. World
Environment
May 30 World No Tobacco Theme:- Day in 1972. It
Day Tobacco: was first
Threat to our celebrated in
environment the year 1974.
May 31 World Vape Day In 2022,
June 1 Global Day of Parents Theme:- Sweden is the
―Appreciate all host of world
parents environment
throughout the day. The
world‖ theme of
June 1 World Milk Day World
June 3 World Bicycle Day World Cycling Environment
Day was first Day 2022 is
celebrated on 'Only One
June 3, 2018, Earth'.
when the On this
United Nations occasion,
first adopted Prime Minister
the resolution Narendra Modi
during the will attend a
72nd regular programme on
session of the ‗Save Soil
United Nations Movement‘.
General June 5 International
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Fight against 2022

Illegal, June 16 World Sea Turtle day
Unreported 2022
and June 13-17 Sea Turtle Week
Unregulated June 17 World Day to Combat Theme:-
Fishing 2022 Desertification and ―'Rising up
June 6 Russian Language Drought from drought
Day 2022 together'.
June 7 World Food Safety June 18 Sustainable
Day Gastronomy Day
June 8 World Oceans Day Theme:- June 19 World Sickle Cell Sickle cell
Revitalization: Day disease (SCD)
collective or sickle cell
action for the anemia is a
ocean‖ major
June 8 World Brain Tumor Theme:- hereditary
Day 'Together We disorder of red
Are Stronger'. blood cells in
World Brain which these
Tumor Day red blood cells
was first are shaped like
organized in a Sickle.
the year 2000 June 19 National Reading Day
by the German 2022
Brain Tumor June 19 The International Day
Association, a for the Elimination of
non-profit Sexual Violence in
organization Conflict
based in June 20 World Refugee Day Theme:-
Leipzig ―'Whoever.
(Germany). Wherever.
June 9 World Accreditation Theme:- Whenever.
Day ―Accreditation: Everyone has
Sustainability the right to
in Economic seek safety'.
Growth and June 21 International Day of Theme:-―
the Yoga 2022 ‗Yoga for
Environment.‖ Humanity‘
June 9 International Level Theme:- June 21 World Music Day Theme:-
Crossing Awareness ―United in 2022 ―Music on the
Day 2022 making our intersections‖.
voice heard.‖ Drug Destruction Day
June 12 World Day Against Theme:- On June 8, 2022, Indian Customs under the Central
Child Labour 2022 ―Universal Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) observed
Social ‗Drug Destruction Day‘ across India as a part of AKAM
Protection to during which 42054.104 kgs kilograms of narcotics were
End Child destroyed which includes 17,108,45 tablets, 72757
Labour.‖ bottles of cough syrup, and 16,336 vials of injections.
June 13 International Elimination of Child Labour Week being observed
Albinism Awareness from 12th to 20th June
Day  The National Commission for Protection of Child
June 14 World Blood Donor Theme:- Rights (NCPCR) is celebrating Elimination of Child
Day ―Donating Labor Week to commemorate World Day against
blood is an act Child Labor. It is celebrated, as part of the "75th
of solidarity. Anniversary Celebration of India's Independence -
Join the effort "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav" at 75 places in various
and save districts from 12th June to 20th June, 2022.
lives‖.  World Day against Child Labor is observed
June 15 Global Wind Day annually on 12 June.The theme of the day is
2022 'Universal Social Protection to End Child Labor'.
June 15 World Elder Abuse Theme:-  The National Commission for Protection of Child
Awareness Day ―Digital Equity Rights (NCPCR) has been constituted by the
for All Ages‖. Government of India as a statutory body under
Section 3 of the Commission for Protection of Child
June 16 International Day of Rights (NCPCR) Act, 2005, which deals with the
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 NOTE:-Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of
Children) Act, 2015. Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. The
MISCELLANEOUS
India finalised deals for cheetahs from South Africa
& Namibia
 The Indian government has finalized deals with
South Africa and Namibia to get the planet‘s fastest
animals, cheetahs that became extinct in India and
will be released into the wild at Kuno Palpur,
Madhya Pradesh, by the end of 2022.
 Initially, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
will be signed for 10 years, which can be extended
for another five years. There will be 12 cheetahs
from South Africa and 8 from Namibia and more
will be followed in subsequent years.
Justin Bieber diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt
Syndrome
Singer Justin Bieber has revealed he is suffering from a
health condition called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, which
has caused full facial paralysis on one side of his face.
Conclave on „Direct to Mobile and 5G Broadband –
Convergence Roadmap for India‟; D2M Technology
Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kanpur, Uttar
Pradesh(UP) in collaboration with Telecommunications
Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI)
organised a conclave on ‗Direct to Mobile and 5G
Broadband – Convergence Roadmap for India‘ at
Akashvani Rang Bhawan auditorium of Prasar Bharati in
New Delhi, Delhi.
A New Species Of Bamboo Dwelling Bat Discovered
In Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary
Recently scientists have discovered a new species of
Bamboo Dwelling Bat near Nongkhyllem Wildlife
Sanctuary in Meghalaya. The new species of bamboo
dwelling bat has been named Glischropus
Meghalayanus.
Haploptychius sahyadriensis: India‟s Newest
Recorded Snail Found in Maharashtra
The Haploptychius sahyadriensis, a carnivorous land
snail, India‘s newest recorded snail, was discovered in
the western Ghats (northern part) of Maharashtra and is
endemic to the Vishalgad Conservation Reserve in
Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
It is named after the type locality of the species in the
northern part of the Western Ghats, which is Sahyadri in
Sanskrit.
A gecko found in 2017 has been now identified as a
new species.
 A gecko (lizard) species named ‗Eublepharis pictus‘
was described in the journal Evolutionary
Systematics.
 ‗Eublepharis pictus‘ also known as the Painted
Leopard Gecko was found in Visakhapatnam in
2017.
 It is mainly found in the forest of Andhra Pradesh
and Odisha.
"Kumbha," a male tiger in the Ranthambore tiger
reserve, has died.
AUGUST – 2022
Prevention of Children from Sexual Offenses Act,
2012.
 Kumbha's carcass was discovered in a drain near
Salavat ghati, according to Deputy Conservator of
Forests Mahendra Sharma.
 Kumbha, also known as -T 34, was 16 years old.
 Ranthambore National Park is a national park in
Rajasthan. It is surrounded by the Banas River to
the north and the Chambal River to the south.
MS Dhoni invests for Chennai drone company
Garuda Aerospace
 Former Indian cricket team captain, MS Dhoni has
invested an undisclosed sum in Chennai-based
Garuda Aerospace, India‘s leading drone-as-a-
service (DaaS) provider. He will also be the face
and brand ambassador of the company.
 The investment is part of a bridge round, ahead of a
$30-million Series A round, which the company is
currently in the process of closing by end-July at a
valuation of $250 million, confirmed founder
Agnishwar Jayaprakash.
Jet Airways Gets DGCA approval To Start
Commercial Flights:
 Jet Airways has been given an air operator‘s
authorization by the DGCA (Directorate General of
Civil Aviation).
 After more than three years of being grounded, the
airline will be able to resume commercial flight
operations.
 Jet Airways has met all of the pre-conditions set by
the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) as
part of the insolvency process for the transfer of
ownership of the airline to the successful resolution
applicant, a consortium consisting of UAE-based
NRI Murari Lal Jalan and London-based Kalrock
Capital Management.
New Arunachal monkey named after Sela pass
 A new species of old world monkey, ―The Sela
Macaque‖ was geographically separated from the
Arunachal Macaque by the Sela, an eastern
Himalayan pass located at an altitude of 13,700
feet.
 Sela macaque (Macaca selai), the new-to-science
primate was identified and analysed by a team of
experts from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)
and the University of Calcutta. Their study has been
published in the latest edition of Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Mumbai International Film Festival begins with a
colourful opening ceremony Documentary
 The 17th edition of the Mumbai International Film
Festival for Documentary, Short Fiction, and
Animation films (MIFF-2022) began with a
colourful opening ceremony at the Nehru Centre,
Worli in Mumbai, Maharashtra. MIFF 2022 has got
an overwhelming response from filmmakers across
the world, receiving a whopping eight hundred 8
film entries from 30 countries.
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 In commemoration of Bangladesh‘s 50 years of
Independence, the country has been chosen as the
‗Country of Focus this year. A special package of
11 films from Bangladesh including the critically
acclaimed film ‗Hasina- A Daughter‘s Tale‘ will be
presented at MIFF 2022.
TCS holds its tenth place among global BPM
providers in 2021
 TCS has maintained its tenth place among the top
worldwide BPM (business process management)
suppliers in 2021, according to Everest Group. The
ranking is based on a combination of revenue (TCS
has more than $3 billion in revenue) and revenue
growth (14-16 percent over 2020). ADP,
Teleperformance, Accenture, Concentrix, and Sitel
Group were the top five BPM companies in terms
of sales. The top five fastest-growing corporations
year over year were Tech Mahindra, Telus
International, Majorel, Teleperformance, and
Comdata.
Maruti Suzuki installed Asia‟s largest 20 MWp solar
plant at Manesar
 Maruti Suzuki India has installed a 20 MW solar
carport at its Manesar, Haryana, site. The project is
projected to provide the organisation with 28,000
MWh of electricity per year.
 According to the firm, the energy generated by this
initiative will be similar to the energy required to
create nearly 67,000 cars every year. This is Asia‘s
largest solar carport, according to the business.
Shreyas G Hosur became 1st Indian Railways officer
to complete gruelling „Ironman‟ Triathlon
 Creating a history of sorts, Shreyas G. Hosur,
became the first officer from the Indian Railways to
complete the gruelling ‗Ironman‘ Triathlon,
considered to be the toughest single-day sports
event in the world.
 This event includes 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km
of cycling and 42.2 km of running. He completed
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the event in 13 hours and 26 minutes in Hamburg,
Germany.
Forbes‟ Global 2000 list of public companies
worldwide 2022 announced
 Forbes‘ Global 2000 list of public companies
worldwide 2022 announced. Forbes Global 2000
ranks the largest companies in the world using four
metrics: sales, profits, assets and market value.
 Billionaire Mukesh Ambani‘s Reliance Industries
Ltd climbed two spots to No. 53 on Forbes‘ Global
2000 list of public companies worldwide 2022.
Reliance is the top-ranked Indian firm on the list,
followed by State Bank of India at No. 105, HDFC
Bank at No. 153 and ICICI Bank at No. 204.
 Berkshire Hathaway took the No. 1 spot for the first
time since Forbes started publishing the Global
2000 in 2003, dethroning the Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China, which dropped to No.
2 after nine consecutive years at the top of the list.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) took
the 3 Spot.
 Other top 10 Indian firms on the list include state-
owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) at
228 ranks, Housing Development Finance
Corporation Ltd (HDFC) at No. 268, Indian Oil
Corporation (IOC) at No. 357, Tata Consultancy
Services Ltd (TCS) at No. 384, Tata Steel at No.
407 and Axis Bank at No. 431.
Asia‟s Longest Tusked Elephant Bhogeshwara Dies
The 70-year-old tusker with the longest tusks among
Asian elephants Bhogeshwara died of natural causes at
the age of 60.
His body was discovered in the D.B.Kuppe Forest Range
in the H.D.Kote taluk of the Mysuru district by forest
officers.
Bhogeshwara, the majestic elephant, was found dead
near the Kabini reservoir in Bandipur-Nagarhole Reserve
Forest.
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1. The Reserve Bank of India has given the State Bank of India preliminary approval for its proposed operations support
subsidiary, which aims to reduce the cost-to-income ratio. Before introducing the new subsidiary across India, the bank will
soon begin a pilot programme in a select areas.
2. Tata Power Solar Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has accomplished a remarkable feat by commissioning
India‘s largest floating solar power project in Kayamkulam, Kerala.
3. Former Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna, Infosys founder and IT industry veteran N R Narayana Murthy, and former
badminton player Prakash Padukone, have been selected for the ‗Kempegowda International Award‘, which has been
instituted beginning this year.
4. The winner of the longest-running Indian beauty pageant outside of India, Miss India Worldwide 2022, was announced as
British biomedical student Khushi Patel. Shrutika Mane was named the second runner up, and Vaidehi Dongre from the US
was named the first runner up. The top 12 competitors at the pageant were the champions of other international competitions.
Guyana‘s Roshani Razack was named Miss Teen India Worldwide 2022.
5. Recognising the potential of the MSME and their role in strengthening economies, June 27 is celebrated as the Micro-Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises Day.
6. Delhi Airport or Indira Gandhi International Airport has become the first airport in the country to run entirely on hydro and
solar power from this month in a major step toward achieving the ambitious goal of becoming a Net Zero Carbon Emission
Airport by 2030.
7. The Commonwealth of Nations now has 56 member nations after the admission of Togo and Gabon. The two historically
French-speaking nations were formally admitted to the union at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which
was presided over by Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, the country‘s capital.
8. Kerala state government has issued orders regarding the implementation of a medical insurance ―MEDISEP‖ scheme for
government employees and pensioners and the deduction of premium from the salary of June 2022 and pension of July 2022.
9. Devotees were finally permitted to take part in the annual Ambubachi Mela at Assam‘s renowned Kamakhya Temple after a
two-year absence. The head priest of Maa Kamakhya Devalaya, or ―Bor Doloi,‖ Kabinath Sarma, explained that the
―Pravritti‖ was used to symbolically close the temple doors for four days as part of the rites.
10. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) chooses Mohammed Jalood as President
11. IRS officer Nitin Gupta has been appointed as the new Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman.
12. The chief govt of India Resurgence Asset Reconstruction Firm (IRARC), Avinash Kulkarni, has been chosen to head the
India Debt Decision Firm (IDRCL).
13. Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Defense Initiatives (DI),
Belarus, and Defense Initiatives Aero Pvt Ltd, India (a subsidiary of DI Belarus).
14. One of the top NBFCs, Mufin Finance, has received preliminary authorisation from the RBI to issue semi-closed prepaid
payment instruments.
15. South Korea sent its first satellite into orbit using a domestic Nuri rocket
16. Three new remote sensing satellites were successfully launched by China from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the
Sichuan Province in southwest China. The satellites were launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 10:22 a.m. (local
time) as part of the Yaogan-35 family and successfully entered the intended orbit.
17. The people of Goa has celebrated the Sao Joao festival, the feast of St John the Baptist with traditional enthusiasm after a
two-year coronavirus-induced gap.
18. S.S. Mundra, a public interest director to lead the world‘s largest stock exchange, according to the BSE. Justice Vikramajit
Sen will be replaced by Mr. Mundra.
19. Former Drinking and water Sanitation Secretary, Parameswaren Iyer has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer
of NITI Aayog for 2 years. He will succeed Amitabh Kant.
20. The Central government has appointed senior IPS officer Tapan Kumar Deka as Director of Intelligence Bureau.
21. Samant Kumar Goel‘s contract as secretary of the intelligence agency‘s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was extended
by the Centre on June 24 by another year.
22. Anil Khanna has been appointed the acting President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
23. ICICI Bank unveiled a digital platform named ―Campus Power‖ to assist students who want to pursue higher education in
India and abroad.
24. The Indian Air Force announced that three Su-30 MKI planes and two C-17 transport aircraft are taking part in a month-long
tactical leadership programme in Egypt.
25. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for the Government of India, left for Portugal to attend the Lisbon UN Ocean
Conference, 2022.
26. Odisha, ‗Mo Bus‘ Service received the prestigious UN Public Service Award
27. Indian tennis great, Vijay Amritraj has been named the 2021 recipient of the Golden Achievement Award by the
International Tennis Hall of Fame and International Tennis Federation.
28. Indian women‘s discus thrower, Navjeet Dhillon won the gold medal at the Qosanov Memorial 2022 athletics meet in
Almaty, Kazakhstan.
29. Ace sprinter Sekar Dhanalakshmi ran her personal best time to win 200m gold at the Qosanov Memorial Athletics.
30. Dr V Krishnamurthy, former chairman of public sector undertakings such as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL),
Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Maruti Udyog (now Maruti Suzuki), passed away.

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MCQS
1. Which country recently conducted the 4th edition
of the Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) along with
India in the Northern Bay of Bengal?
(a) France (b) Bangladesh
(c) Singapore (d) Indonesia
2. India‘s ASHA Workers are Among 6 Winners of the
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-
General‘s Global Health Leaders Award 2022 for
their ―crucial role‖ towards healthcare in rural areas.
In ASHA, what does 1st ‗A‘ stand for?
(a) Acquired (b) Accredited
(c) Activists (d) Associated
3. Anthony Norman Albanese was appointed as the
new Prime Minister (PM) of which country?
(a) Austria (b) Belgium
(c) Spain (d) Australia
4. Who was recently (in May '2(B) reappointed as the (b) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Development
Officer (CEO) of Infosys for a period of 5 years? (c) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
(a) Nandan M. Nilekani (d) Reserve Bank of India
(b) Chitra Nayak 11. Name the bank that recently won the 6 national awards
(c) Vijay Shekhar Sharma from the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development
(d) Salil Parekh Authority (PFRDA) in different categories for
5. When was the United Nations (UN)‘s World Day enrollment of Atal Pension Yojana (APY).
for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and (a) Maharashtra Gramin Bank
Development 2022 observed across the globe? (b) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank
(a) 23rd May 2022 (b) 21st May 2022 (c) Uttarakhand Gramin Bank
(c) 24th May 2022 (d) 22nd May 2022 (d) Kerala Gramin Bank
6. Which state government will launch India‘s first 12. Who was recently received an Honorary Commander
state-owned over-the-top (OTT) platform named of the Order of The British Empire (CBE)?
"CSpace" in November 2022? (a) Nisaba Godrej (b) Rishi Pardal
(a) Maharashtra (b) Telangana (c) Sajjan Jindal (d) Ajay Piramal
(c) Karnataka (d) Kerala 13. Who was recently appointed as the Chairman of
7. Which state recently named "Nanjarayan Tank" as Bombay Stock Exchange Limited?
its 17th bird sanctuary? (a) Sushri Jayshree Vyas (b) T.C. Suseel Kumar
(a) Telangana (b) Kerala (c) SS Mundra (d) Nidhi Chibber
(c) TamilNadu (d) Andhra Pradesh 14. Which of the following personalities was recently
8. Which organisation recently released the 2nd appointed as the executive directors of the Reserve
edition of ‗Global Land Outlook (GLO(B)‘ report Bank of India?
with the finding that there are 23 countries that have (a) Sitikantha Pattanaik (b) Rajiv Ranjan
experienced drought emergencies in the last two (c) Uma Shankar (d) Only 1 & 2
years (2020–202(B)? 15. Ramgarh Vishdhari Sanctuary was recently notified
(a) United Nations Convention to Combat as India‘s 52nd Tiger Reserve (TR). The Ramgarh
Desertification Vishdhari Tiger Reserve became the 4th Tiger
(b) United Nations Human Settlement Programme reserve in which state?
(c) United Nations Framework Convention on (a) West Bengal (b) Bihar
Climate Change (c) Rajasthan (d) Odisha
(d) United Nations Environment Programme 16. Which ministry recently launched the ‗BHARAT
9. As per the RBI‘s 38th half-yearly report on TAP initiative & Nirmal Jal Prayas Initiative‘ at the
Management of Foreign Exchange Reserves: ‗Plumbex India‘ exhibition at New Delhi, Delhi?
October 2021-March 2022, India‘s foreign exchange (a) Ministry of Rural Development
reserves fell by ______ in the September-March (b) Ministry of Panchayati Raj
2022 (Second half of FY2(B). (c) Ministry of Jal Shakti
(a) $10.25 billion (b) $30.56 billion (d) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
(c) $28.05 billion (d) $45.09 billion 17. World Bank approved _______ in funding for the
10. The Regulations Review Authority (RRA 2.0) Systems Reform Endeavour for Transformed Health
recently recommended the withdrawal of an Achievement in Gujarat (SRESTHA-G) project‘s
additional 239 circulars. The RRA 2.0 is set up by implementation.
which organisation in April 2021? (a) USD 120 million (b) USD 420 million
(a) Small Industries Development Bank of India (c) USD 350 million (d) USD 209 million

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18. Which state recently launched the ‗Lok Milni‘ 30. What was the growth projection of India‘s GDP (Gross
programme for the redressal of public grievances? Domestic Product) in 2022-23, according to the United
(a) Jharkhand (b) Chhattisgarh Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
(c) Rajasthan (d) Punjab (UN-DESA) in its ‗World Economic Situation and
19. 42nd Meeting of the Executive Committee of Prospects (WESP) Mid-year Update 2022?
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) (a) 6.7 % (b) 6.4 % (c) 5.5% (d) 5.7 %
approved 11 projects worth of _______ to develop 31. Which Insurance Company has launched India‘s
water infrastructure projects along the River Ganga. first dental health insurance plan?
(a) Rs 550 crores (b) Rs 800 crores (a) SBI General Insurance Company
(c) Rs 120 crores (d) Rs 660 crores (b) Religare Insurance Company
20. The Greenko Group is to set up the ‗World‘s largest (c) PNB MetLife India Insurance Company
Integrated Renewable Energy Storage Project (d) Bharti AXA General Insurance
(IRESP)‘ in which state? 32. Who has launched two made-in-India warships INS
(a) Rewa, Madhya Pradesh ‗Surat‘ and ‗Udaygiri‘ at the Mazagon Docks in
(b) Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh Mumbai?
(c) Tumkur, Karnataka (a) Amit Shah (b) Rajnath Singh
(d) Jodhpur, Rajasthan (c) Narendra Modi (d) Ramnath Kovind
21. As per the UNICEF Child Alert – May 2022, 33. The Union Government has announced the
―Severe Wasting: An Overlooked Child Survival formation of the Cotton Council of India. Who
Emergency‖ report, which country has the world‘s among the following is the chairman of the council?
most severely wasted children under the age of five? (a) Jitendra Bisht (b) Deepak Verma
(a) Sri Lanka (b) India (c) Ravi Dikshit (d) Suresh Bhai Kotak
(c) Bangladesh (d) Indonesia 34. West Central Railway has developed a battery-
22. India‘s Governor of New Development Bank (NDB) operated dual-mode locomotive named ____.
Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the 7th Annual Meeting (a) Devdoot (b) Navdoot
of the Board of Governors of NDB. During the (c) E-Loco (d) Tesla-Loco
meeting, Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned that India‘s 35. S&P Global Ratings cut India‘s growth projection
GDP growth in the current FY is estimated to be ___. for the current fiscal to ____ per cent from 7.8 per
(a) 8.2% (b) 7.6% cent earlier.
(c) 8.9% (d) 7.2% (a) 7.3 (b) 7.4 (c) 7.5 (d) 7.6
23. RBI directed the banks to provide the option of 36. Who chairs the 4th meeting of the National Startup
ICCW at their ATMs in order to curb frauds. In Advisory Council?
ICCW, what does ‗I‘ stand for? (a) Narendra Modi (b) Nirmala Sitharaman
(a) Interoperable (b) Individual (c) Ashwini Vaishnaw (d) Piyush Goyal
(c) Identifiable (d) Issuer 37. Which football club has won UEFA Europa
24. Name the bank that recently launched a spot offer Football League title in 2022?
for home loans on WhatsApp. (a) Rangers FC (b) Chelsea
(a) HDFC Bank (b) ICICI Bank (c) Barcelona (d) Eintracht Frankfurt
(c) Axis Bank (d) YES Bank 38. Indian GM ______ posted his second win over
25. Name the Indian Aerospace startup company that world champion Magnus Carlsen.
recently tested the Kalam-100 Engine on Vikram 1 (a) Prithu Gupta (b) Praggnanandhaa
launch vehicle. (c) Girish Koushik (d) Gukesh D
(a) Agnikul Cosmos (b) Bellatrix Aerospace 39. Who has become one of the youngest Indian
(c) Pixxel (d) Skyroot Aerospace mountaineers to summit the Everest Base Camp
26. Name the author of the book, "A Place Called (EBC) in the Himalayan ranges in Nepal?
Home," which will be released in June 2022. (a) Roshini Sharma (b) Rhythm Mamania
(a)Preeti Shenoy (b) Kiran Desai (c) Nidhi Tripathi (d) Rajni Sethi
(c) Amish Tripathi (d) Ravinder Singh 40. Formula One world champion, ____________ won
27. The Tourism Ministry established YUVA Tourism Club the Spanish Grand Prix in a Red Bull.
recently with the support of which Education Boards? (a) George Russell (b) Sergio Perez
(a) Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) (c) Charles Leclerc (d) Max Verstappen
(b) Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) 41. Which of the following film has been honoured with
(c) International Baccalaureate (IB) the 2022 Palme d‘Or award in Cannes Film Festival
(d) National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) 2022?
28. Who released the ‗Global Food Policy Report (a) Broker (b) Eo
(GFPR) - Climate Change & Food Systems‘ stating (c) Stars at Noon (d) Triangle of Sadness
the number of Indians at risk from hunger is (e) Holy Spider
expected to be 73.9 million by 2030? 42. According to the Geological Survey of India, which
(a) FAO (b) IFPRI of the following state has the largest gold reserves in
(c) WHO (d) WFP the country?
29. Which Bank (issued a Chinese yuan (CNY) 7 billion (a) Bihar (b) Jharkhand
bond (about USD 1.04 billion) in the China Interbank (c) Chhattisgarh (d) Gujarat
Bond Market with a 3-year maturity period? 43. Which state/UT government has undertaken a unique
(a) Industrial & Commercial Bank of China initiative of using robots for extinguishing fires by
(b) Bank of China Limited inducting two robots in their firefighting fleet?
(c) Asian Development Bank (a) Chandigarh (b) Puducherry
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44. Who has become the first player to hit 700 fours in 57. Reserve Bank of India‘s Banknote Survey of
the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL)? Consumers findings has revealed that Rs_______
(a) David Warner (b) ShikharDhawan was the most preferred banknote.
(c) ViratKohli (d) Rohit Sharma (a) Rs. 50 (b) Rs. 100 (c) Rs. 200 (d) Rs. 500
45. Which state has become the first Indian state to roll 58. A new book titled ―Listen to Your Heart: The
out drone in healthcare sector? London Adventure‖ authored by ________.
(a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand (a) Arundhati Roy (b) Ruskin Bond
(c) Rajasthan (d) Bihar (c) Chetan Bhagat (d) Vikram Seth
46. Which of the following has become the first Gulf 59. Union Minister Jitendra Singh has inaugurated
state to record a case of monkeypox? North India‘s first Industrial Biotech Park at ___.
(a) Qatar (b) Saudi Arabia (a) Shimla (b) Jammu (c) Leh (d) Gulmarg
(c) Oman (d) UAE 60. Who has topped the fortune 500 list of highest-paid
47. A supercomputer named Param Porul was CEO executives in the world?
inaugurated at NIT ________ under National (a) Jensen Huang (b) Tim Cook
Supercomputing Mission (NSM). (c) Elon Musk (d) Reed Hastings
(a) Calicut (b) Warangal 61. INS Gomati was decommissioned at which naval
(c) Surathkal (d) Tiruchirappalli dockyard?
48. World Health Organization has re-appointed (a) Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam
Dr.TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus as Director- (b) Naval Dockyard, Kochi
General of WHO for the second term. (c) Naval Dockyard, Chennai
TedrosAdhanom is from which country? (d) Naval Dockyard, Mumbai
(a) Tanzania (b) Rwanda 62. India has won 33 medals in total, including 13 gold,
(c) Uganda (d) Ethiopia 15 silver, and 5 bronze in International Shooting
49. Which of the following city host India‘s biggest Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup 2022,
Drone Festival -‗Bharat Drone Mahotsav2022‘? held at __________.
(a) Ahmedabad (b) New Delhi (a) Montreal, Canada (b) Lausanne, Switzerland
(c) Chennai (d) Chandigarh (c) Bonn, Germany (d) Suhl, Germany
50. As per the RBI guidelines, banks may allow 63. What is the theme of the Global Organic Expo
Qualified Jewellers to remit advance payments for 2022?
how many days for the import of gold through IIBX (a) Ecosystem Restoration
in compliance to the extant Foreign Trade Policy (b) Only Organic Earth
and regulations issued under IFSC Act? (c) Time for Organic Nature
(a) 22 days (b) 11 days (c) 32 days (d) 45 days (d) Profitability for Humanity
51. Which payments bank has recently introduced issuer 64. Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American
charges for the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System translator Daisy Rockwell won the International
(AePS)? Booker Prize for ―_______,‖
(a) Paytm Payments Bank (a) Tomb of Sand (b) Reta-samadhi
(b) Airtel Payments Bank (c) Tirohit (d) Khali Jagah
(c) NSDL Payments Bank 65. Union Government has launched the 8th edition of
(d) India Post Payments Bank SwachhSurvekshan – 2023 under Swachh Bharat
52. Which of the following country has been chosen as Mission Urban 2.0. SwachhSurvekshan was
the ―Country of Focus‖ in the 17th Mumbai introduced by MoHUA in which year?
International Film Festival? (a) 2014 (b) 2015 (c) 2016 (d) 2017
(a) Sri Lanka (b) Nepal 66. The third edition of Indian Navy and _________
(c) Myanmar (d) Bangladesh Bilateral Exercise ‗Bongosagar‘ commenced.
53. World Thyroid Day is observed on ______ to (a) US Navy (b) Sri Lanka Navy
promote awareness and understanding of thyroid (c) Bangladesh Navy (d) Russian Navy
diseases, their symptoms, prevention, and 67. Which company has become the first Exploration
treatments. and Production (E&P) company in India to trade
(a) May 25 (b) May 24 domestic gas on Indian Gas Exchange?
(c) May 23 (d) May 22 (a) GAIL India Limited
54. Which of the following state celebrates 4th Edition (b) Indian Oil Corporation
of State-Level Shirui Lily Festival 2022? (c) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
(a) Manipur (b) Tripura (d) Reliance Industries
(c) Sikkim (d) Himachal Pradesh 68. Which state government has signed MoUs worth
55. Which of the following city is the first metro city in 30,000 crore rupees with 23 companies from
the country to prepare a detailed register of different parts of the world at the World Economic
biodiversity? Forum in Davos?
(a) Kanpur (b) Lucknow (a) Maharashtra (b) West Bengal
(c) Delhi (d) Kolkata (c) Gujarat (d) Madhya Pradesh
56. The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 ended with 69. JSW One Platforms, an e-commerce venture by
Gujarat Titans (GT) lifting the trophy by defeating JSW Group, has appointed _________ as Chief
inaugural champions ________. Executive Officer.
(a) Royal Challengers Bangalore (a) Rashmi Desai (b) Raunak Singh
(b) Rajasthan Royals (c) Dinkar Singh (d) Gaurav Sachdeva
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70. Who among the following Indian has been named (c) A Manimekhalai (d) Swarup Kumar Saha
under the Leaders category in world‘s 100 most 84. Who have been awarded by the UIC International
influential people of 2022 by TIME magazine? Sustainable Railway Awards (ISRA) in the category
(a) Ratan Tata (b) Neeta Ambani of ―Best use of Zero-Carbon Technology‖ for feeding
(c) Narendra Modi (d) KhurramParvez Solar Energy directly to 25 KV AC Traction System?
71. Shivaji Patnaik passed away recently. He was a/an (a) US Railway (b) Dutch Railway
_______________. (c) Russian Railway (d) Indian Railway
(a) Poet (b) Choreographer 85. Which is the electronic trading platform promoted
(c) Politician (d) Director by Rubber Board will go live .
72. Which bank has announced the launch of Real Time (a) mRube (b) xRube (c) yRube (d) zRube
Xpress Credit on its internet banking platform, 86. Which of the following documentary has won the
which allows eligible customers to get personal prestigious Golden Conch award for the Best
loans of up to Rs 35 lakh? Documentary Film at MIFF 2022?
(a) ICICI Bank (b) RBL Bank (a) Closed to the Light
(c) State Bank of India (d) Federal Bank (b) Prince in a Pastry Shop
73. Who has been awarded the SangitaKalanidhi award (c) Saakshatkaaram
for the year 2021 by Music Academy? (d) Turn Your Body to the Sun
(a) Neyveli R Santanagopalan 87. Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings
(b) TiruvarurBhakthavathsalam 2022 was recently released by the Times Higher
(c) Lalgudi GJR Krishnan Education (THE). This year which university of
(d) Vijayalakshmi India has topped the list of top 100?
74. Which of the following city is the first metro city in (a) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
the country to prepare a detailed register of (b) Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
biodiversity? (c) IIT Gandhinagar
(a) Kanpur (b) Lucknow (d) Indian Institute of Technology Indore
(c) Delhi (d) Kolkata 88. Which payments bank has partnered with the
75. What is the rank of India in World Economic Muthoot Finance to offer gold loans on its app?
Forum‘s Travel and Tourism Development Index (a) Paytm Payments Bank
2021? (b) Fino Payments Bank
(a) 51st (b) 52nd (c) 53rd (d) 54th (c) Jio Payments Bank
76. Which of the following airlines gets DGCA (d) Airtel Payments Bank
approval to start commercial flights recently? 89. Who has won the Best female actress award in the
(a) Go First (b) Akasa Air International Indian Film Academy Awards held in
(c) Vistara (d) Jet Airways Abu Dhabi?
77. Which of the following state has launched (a) Alia Bhatt (b) Kangana Ranaut
‗Sambhav‘ portal for disposal of public grievances (c) Kriti Sanon (d) TaapseePannu
related to energy? 90. As per a latest report by PhonePe in collaboration
(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand with BCG, India‘s digital payments market is
(c) Odisha (d) Bihar expected to reach $10 trillion by ____.
78. _______ has launched Portal to Simplify Process of (a) 2030 (b) 2028 (c) 2024 (d) 2026
Teacher Education Programme. 91. According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires
(a) Indian Council of Education Index, who is the richest in Asia?
(b) Education Council of India (a) Zhong Shanshan (b) Mukesh Ambani
(c) NCTE (c) Gautam Adani (d) Zhang Yiming
(d) NCERT 92. Which of the following state is set to introduce the
79. Which bank has topped PSU lenders chart in loan Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award to the State‘s
growth during FY22? sportspersons?
(a) Indian Overseas Bank (a) Rajasthan (b) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Bank of India (c) Uttarakhand (d) Punjab
(c) Bank of Maharashtra 93. Which state recently declared Blue Duke as the
(d) Central Bank of India State Butterfly?
80. Recently, PM released the benefits under the PM (a) Meghalaya (b) Mizoram
CARES for Children Scheme. In which year the PM (c) Nagaland (d) Sikkim
CARES scheme was launched? 94. The United Nations has changed the Republic of
(a) 2022 (b) 2018 (c) 2015 (d) 2021 Turkey‘s country name at the organisation from
81. India-____ bilateral defence cooperation, a joint ―Turkey‖ to ―_________‖, following a request from
military training exercise Ex SAMPRITI-X is being Ankara for the change.
conducted at Jashore Military Station in Bangladesh. (a) Türkiyo (b) Türkiya
(a) Bangladesh (b) France (c) Türkiye (d) Türkiyc
(c) USA (d) Russia 95. Which of the following state has won a coveted UN
82. Who among the following has won the ―2022 Award- World Summit on the Information Society
French Open Men‘s Category‖? Forum (WSIS) prize at Geneva in Switzerland?
(a) Ivan Dodig (b) Casper Ruud (a) Meghalaya (b) Tripura
(c) Austin Krajicek (d) Rafael Nadal (c) Sikkim (d) Assam
83. Who among the following has been appointed as 96. Who among the following has launched the Scheme
managing director of Union Bank of India? ―SHRESHTA‖-Scheme for residential education for
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(a) Dharmendra Pradhan (b) SarbanandaSonowal 111. India has successfully tested a nuclear- capable
(c) Giriraj Singh (d) Virendra Kumar Agni-4 ballistic missile from APJ Abdul Kalam
97. Who has launched a nationwide ‗Fit India Freedom Island in Odisha. What is the range of this missile?
Rider Cycle rally‘ on World Bicycle Day? (a) 4000 Km (b) 5000 Km
(a) Arjun Munda (c) 7000 Km (d) 8000 Km
(b) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 112. Which armed force has recently participated in the
(c) Narendra Singh Tomar ―Khaan Quest 2022‖ exercise in Mongolia?
(d) Anurag Thakur (a) Indian Navy (b) Indian Air Force
98. Which of the following state has decided to abolish (c) Indian Army (d) Indian Coast Guard
the physical stamp papers in an attempt to bring 113. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das voted unanimously
efficiency and check the pilferage of State revenue? to raise repo rate by 50 basis points to __ percent.
(a) Haryana (b) Punjab (a) 4.70 (b) 4.90 (c) 4.50 (d) 4.80
(c) Rajasthan (d) Gujarat 114. Whom did India beat to clinch inaugural FIH Hockey
99. Santoor maestro and Padma Shri awardee, 5s championship in Lausanne in Switzerland?
________ has passed away at the age of 73. (a) Belgium (b) Australia
(a) Bhajan Sopori (b) Ulhas Bapat (c) Canada (d) Poland
(c) Tarun Bhattacharya (d) Shivkumar Sharma 115. The World Bank has slashed its growth forecast for
100. Dr S Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space India for the current financial year to _____ percent.
Research Organisation (ISRO), inaugurated (a) 7.5 (b) 6.5 (c) 5.5 (d) 8.5
ANANTH Technologies‘ spacecraft manufacturing 116. Who has took charge as the new Managing Director
unit at ________. (MD) of State Bank of India (SBI)?
(a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Kerala (a) Dinkar Singh (b) Roshni Singh
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Karnataka (c) Vimal Sharma (d) Alok Kumar Choudhary
101. Who has been conferred with the Sitara-i-Pakistan 117. Who has launched a special series of coins that are
Award for Services to Pakistan during a ceremony? also ‗visually impaired friendly‘. The coins of Re 1,
(a) Dwayne Bravo (b) Daren Sammy Rs 2, 5, 10 and 20 denominations will have the
(c) Brian Lara (d) Curtly Ambrose Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) design?
102. Which of the following Indian state was founded on (a) Amit Shah (b) Narendra Modi
2nd June 2014? (c) Rajnath Singh (d) Nirmala Sitharaman
(a) Telangana (b) Andhra Pradesh 118. What is the theme of World Oceans Day 2022?
(c) Goa (d) Uttarakhand (a) Gender and the Ocean
103. Who among the following has been presented the (b) The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods
Times Business Award 2022. The award was given (c) Revitalization: collective action for the ocean
in the category of Eastern India‘s Leading READY- (d) Clean our Ocean!
TO-EAT brand? 119. Maruti Suzuki Installs Asia‘s largest 20 MWp
(a) Deepika Sharma (b) Roshni Dixit carport type Solar Plant at________.
(c) Rashmi Sahoo (d) VinetaSuyal (a) Punjab (b) Haryana
104. What is the GST revenue for May stood at nearly (c) Rajasthan (d) Maharashtra
_______ crore, a 44 per cent increase over the same 120. SitalSasthi is a sacred Hindu festival is being
month last year, the Finance Ministry? celebrated in ________.
(a) Rs 1.48 lakh (b) Rs 1.45 lakh (a) Odisha (b) Rajasthan
(c) Rs 1.50 lakh (d) Rs 1.41 lakh (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Uttarakhand
105. Which of the following supercomputer has topped 121. What is Global Environment performance Index the
the 59th edition of the Top500 list of the world‘s position of India in the index?
most powerful supercomputers? (a) 160th (b) 150th
(a) Fugaku (b) Frontier (c) LUMI (d) Summit (c) 180th (d) 177th
106. Who will continue as United Nations Children‘s Fund 122. Which among the following Indian has recently
(UNICEF) ‗Goodwill Ambassador‘ for a record 20th topped the Real-Time Billionaires List by Forbes?
year? (a) Shiv Nadar (b) Gautam Adani
(a) Sachin Tendulkar (b) Sania Mirza (c) Mukesh Ambani (d) Cyrus Poonawalla
(c) Priyanka Chopra (d) Deepika Padukone 123. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
107. Which of the following team has won the Men‘s Development (OECD) has forecast India‘s GDP
Hockey Asia Cup 2022? growth at _______ per cent for FY23.
(a) Pakistan (b) Malaysia (a) 4.9% (b) 5.9% (c) 6.9% (d) 7.9%
(c) India (d) South Korea 124. Who is the Indian women‘s cricket team captain
108. Which state has launched ‗14400 app‘ to report the announced her retirement from all forms of
corrupted officials with proof? International cricket.
(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Maharashtra (a) Deepti Sharma (b) Punam Raut
(c) Jharkhand (d) Andhra Pradesh (c) Jhulan Goswami (d) Mithali Raj
109. Which state government has launched ‗NalayaThiran‘ skilling125. Members of the European Parliament have voted to
programme for students under ‗Naan Mudhalvan‘? ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by _____.
(a) Kerala (b) Gujarat (a) 2035 (b) 2034 (c) 2033 (d) 2032
(c) Rajasthan (d) Tamil Nadu 126. Who among the following Indian has crossed the
110. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the 200 million followers mark on the social media site
International Aluminium Institute (IAI)? Instagram?
(a) Swarup Kumar Saha (b) Miles Prosser (a) MS Dhoni (b) Virat Kohli
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127. What is the theme of World Brain Tumour Day (a) Parshottam Rupala
2022? (b) Mahendra Nath Pandey
(a) Dairy Net Zero (b) Silent Killer (c) Narendra Singh Tomar
(c) Only One Earth (d) Together We Are Stronger (d) Mansukh Mandaviya
128. Name the author of the book ―Business of Sports: 142. Which of the following day marks the World Day
The Winning Formula for Success‖. Against Child Labour?
(a) Vipin Kumar (b) Deepak Rawat (a) 11 June (b) 12 June (c) 13 June (d) 14 June
(c) Roshni Sharma (d) Vinit Karnik 143. Who has been given the additional charge of Prasar
129. Which state has topped the 4th Food Safety Index Bharati Chief Executive Officer (CEO)?
awards announced by Union Health Minister (a) Vishwas Agrawal (b) Sanjeev Kumar
Mansukh Mandaviya on the occasion of World (c) Tripti Singh (d) Mayank Kumar Agrawal
Food Safety Day? 144. Operation Pangea XIV was exercised by which
(a) Maharashtra (b) Gujarat agency?
(c) Goa (d) Tamil Nadu (a) IMF (b) IndianArmy
130. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved which (c) IndianAirforce (d) Interpol
category of banks to provide doorstep banking services? 145. As per the report ―The Costs of Climate Change in
(a) Local Area Banks India‖, by what % India‘s poverty rate would
(b) Urban Cooperative banks increase by 2040 due to climate change?
(c) Rural Cooperative Banks (a) 2% (b) 3.5% (c) 4% (d) 10%
(d) Payment Banks 146. which among the following in not appointed as the
131. Baikho festival is celebrated in which of the non-permanent members of UNSC recently?
following state? (a) Ecuador (b) Japan
(a) Tripura (b) Assam (c) Mozambique (d) Srilanka
(c) Manipur (d) Nagaland 147. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has
132. BIMSTEC has celebrated the ______ Anniversary inaugurated ‗Dharohar‘, the National Museum of
of the regional organisation on BIMSTEC Day. Customs and GST in which state?
(a) 21st (b) 22nd (c) 23rd (d) 25th (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Rajasthan
133. Which Indian institute has ranked as the top (c) Goa (d) Assam
research university in the world in QS World 148. Which payments bank has partnered with Go Digit
University Rankings 2023? General Insurance Limited to provide small and medium
(a) IISc- Bengaluru (b) IIT-Bombay business owners with shop insurance coverage?
(c) IIT- Delhi (d) IIT-Madras (a) Paytm Payments Bank
134. Who has been appointed as ambassador of The (b) Airtel Payments Bank
Season of Culture, which marks the 75th (c) India Post Payments Bank
anniversary of India‘s independence? (d) Fino Payments Bank
(a) AR Rahman (b) Chandrika Tandon 149. Who among the following has been appointed as the
(c) Zubin Mehta (d) Ustad Zakir Hussain MD & CEO of RBL Bank?
135. Reserve Bank has cancelled the licence of which (a) S L Thaosen (b) Ajay Kumar Srivastava
state‘s Mudhol Co-operative Bank Limited, thus (c) R Subramaniakumar (d) N J Ojha
restricting it from repayment of deposits and 150. The _____ World Trade Organization‘s (WTO)
acceptance of fresh funds? Ministerial Conference (MC12) opened at WTO
(a) Telangana (b) Uttarakhand headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
(c) Karnataka (d) Assam (a) 11th (b) 12th (c) 13th (d) 14th
136. India ranked ___________ among the top recipients 151. Who become the world‘s second-longest reigning
of FDI in the last calendar year (2021), according to monarch in history, after France‘s Louis XIV?
the UNCTAD World Investment Report. (a) King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
(a) 5th (b) 7th (c) 9th (d) 12th (b) Bhumibol Adulyadej
137. Which country recently, released a new geological (c) Queen Victoria
map of the moon? (d) Queen Elizabeth II
(a) USA (b) China (c) India (d) Russia 152. Who was presented with Honorary Doctor of
138. Which district has topped in 2nd edition of Awards Literature by Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh
for Excellence in District Skill Development Koshyari at Raj Bhavan Mumbai.
Planning (DSDP)? (a) Mukesh Ambani (b) Ratan Tata
(a) Rajkot, Gujarat (b) Cachar, Assam (c) Amitabh Bachchan (d) MS Dhoni
(c) Jamtara, Jharkhand (d) Satara, Maharashtra 153. The Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik (UDAN) scheme
139. Who has been appointed as ombudsman under under the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA)
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment celebrated its ______ anniversary in 2022.
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)? (a) 7th (b) 5th (c) 6th (d) 2nd
(a) S L Thaosen (b) Ajay Kumar Srivastava 154. Who has announced that it became the 1st RBI
(c) Swarup Kumar Saha (d) N J Ojha licensed PPI (prepaid payment instrument) to launch
140. Which state has launched Yantra Seva Scheme and cash withdrawal using a RuPay-powered card from
flagged off the distribution of tractors and combine any ATMs across the country?
harvesters? (a) OmniCard (b) SBI Card
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka (c) ICICI Card (d) HDFC
(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Kerala 155. Who recently won the Azerbaijan Formula One
141. Who has launched the country‘s first homegrown Grand Prix and became Red Bull‘s Most Successful
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(a)Max Verstappen (b) George Russell 168. Under the ‗Bharat Gaurav‘ scheme of the Indian
(c) Sergio Pérez (d) Charles Leclerc Railways, India‘s first private train flagged off from
156. Which of the following state has won the Khelo which place to Shirdi?
India Youth Games (KIYG) 2021 title with 52 gold (a) Allahabad (b) Puri
medals on the final day? (c) Chennai (d) Coimbatore
(a) Maharashtra (b) Karnataka 169. What is the rank of Bengaluru in the Global Startup
(c) Rajasthan (d) Haryana Ecosystem ranking, released by Startup Genome?
157. Who among the following has been named as ICC (a) 15 (b) 22 (c) 31 (d) 40
Men‘s Players of the Month for May 2022? 170. Inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI)
(a) Asitha Fernando (b) Angelo Mathews in India has rose to ______________ in May 2022.
(c) Mushfiqur Rahim (d) Rishab Pant (a) 13.78% (b) 19.29% (c) 15.88% (d) 12.54%
158. According to data released by the Ministry of 171. Who has been appointed as part-time non-official
Statistics and Programme Implementation, India‘s Directors on the central board of RBI?
headline retail inflation rate eased to _____ percent (a) Anand Mahindra (b) Venu Srinivasan
in May. (c) Pankaj Patel (d) All of the above
(a) 7.01 (b) 7.02 (c) 7.03 (d) 7.04 172. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey
159. Which edition of Coordinated Patrol (IND-INDO annual report for July 2020-June 2021, what is the
CORPAT) between the Indian Navy Units of Worker population ratio (WPR) in usual status for
Andaman & Nicobar Command (ANC) and persons of all ages in India?
Indonesian Navy conducted? (a) 59.8% (b) 49.8% (c) 39.8% (d) 29.8%
(a) 35th (b) 36th (c) 37th (d) 38th 173. According to Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw,
160. Indian government has finalized deals with South India will get 5G services by March _____.
Africa and Namibia to introduce cheetahs into the (a) 2025 (b) 2024 (c) 2023 (d) 2022
wild at Kuno Palpur National Park by the end of 174. Which state‘s Chief Minister has launched the
2022. Kuno Palpur National Park is located in ‗EnnumEzhuthum scheme‘ to bridge the learning gap
which state? occurred due to COVID-19 pandemic among students?
(a) Gujarat (b) Himachal Pradesh (a) Karnataka (b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Madhya Pradesh (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu
161. Indian government has introduced the Agnipath 175. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Military recruitment scheme, a 4-year tenure Development Authority (APEDA) has recently
scheme for the defense troops. The scheme is being launched an eight-day-long Mango Festival in
implemented by which department? which country to boost export of mangoes?
(a) Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (a) Malaysia (b) Uzbekistan
(b) Department of Military Affairs (c) UAE (d) Bahrain
(c) Department of Defence Research and 176. What was the rank of India in the annual World
Development Competitiveness Index 2022, released by Institute
(d) Department of Defence Production for Management Development (IMD)?
162. Which state has scored overall highest in national e- (a) 12th (b) 37th (c) 49th (d) 63rd
governance service delivery assessment (NeSDA) 177. Which company has invested USD 5,00,000
report 2021? (Rs.3.88 crore) in association with UN Women for
(a) Bihar (b) Assam the LINK Women project to create employment
(c) Telangana (d) Kerala opportunities for women?
163. First-ever India-European Union (EU) Security and (a) Facebook (b) Twitter
Defence Consultations held in ___________. (c) LinkedIn (d) Instagram
(a) Brussels, Belgium 178. Which bank has announced USD 250 million in
(b) Zürich, Switzerland lending support for high-growth, technology-led
(c) Athens, Greece start-ups in India?
(d) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (a) Standard Chartered Bank
164. Who among the following has won the men‘s (b) RBL Bank
singles title at 2022 Indonesia Masters badminton (c) ICICI Bank
tournament? (d) HSBC Bank
(a) Dominic Thiem (b) Alexander Zverev 179. India has successfully test-launched Short-Range
(c) Anders Antonsen (d) Viktor Axelsen Ballistic Missile, Prithvi-II from an integrated test
165. Who set a new national record as he threw 89.30 range in Chandipur, Odisha. What is the range of
metres at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland? Prithvi-II?
(a) Joginder Singh Bedi (a) 150 Km (b) 250 Km (c) 325 Km (d) 350 Km
(b) Neeraj Chopra 180. Who has been named as the new Chairperson of Cellular
(c) Ravinder Singh Khaira Operators‘ Association of India (COAI) for 2022-23?
(d) Anil Singh (a) Pramod K Mittal (b) P Balaji
166. Who has launched ―StartUps for Railways‖, an (c) Ajai Puri (d) S.P. Kochhar
important initiative in the field of innovation? 181. BhimanagoudaSanganagouda Patil has been sworn
(a) Piyush Goyal (b) Ashwini Vaishnaw in as the Lokayukta of which of the following state?
(c) Dharmendra Pradhan (d) Nitin Gadkari (a) Gujarat (b) Karnataka
167. Which country has overtaken Saudi Arabia to (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Uttar Pradesh
become India‘s second-biggest supplier of oil? 182. Japan has participated in NATO Summit in Madrid
(a) Iraq (b) Iran (c) UAE (d) Russia for the first time in June 2022. Who is the present
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(a) Robert Abela (b) Ian Fry (a) Ali Daei (b) Mokhtar Dahari
(c) Gilbert Houngbo (d) Jens Stoltenberg (c) Lionel Messi (d) Sunil Chhetri
183. RBI has raised the Additional Factor of 196. Who among the following has won the Colombia‘s
Authentication (AFA) limit of e-mandates for presidency election?
transactions from Rs. 5,000 to ____________. (a) Juan Manuel Santos (b) Iván Duque Marquez
(a) Rs 10,000 (b) Rs 15,000 (c) Alvaro Uribe Velez (d) Gustavo Petro
(c) Rs 20,000 (d) Rs 25,000 197. Name the author of the book ―Gautam Adani: The
184. Who has been appointed as the new chief of Press Man Who Changed India‖.
Council of India? (a) Shobha Dey (b) RN Bhaskar
(a) Ranjana Prakash Desai (c) Vinay Dixit (d) Ramandeep Singh
(b) Ranjan Gogoi 198. Who among the following has won the Canadian
(c) P N Vasudevan Grand Prix 2022?
(d) Swarup Kumar Saha (a) Lewis Hamilton (b) Sergio Perez
185. Hamza Abdi Barre has been appointed as the prime (c) Max Verstappen (d) Carlos Sainz
minister of which country? 199. Recently, Fitch Ratings revised the outlook on
(a) Kenya (b) Sudan Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) of 9 Indian
(c) Somalia (d) Zimbabwe Banks to?
186. Where was the largest known plant on Earth (a) Stable (b) Negative
recently discovered? (c) Neutral (d) Postive
(a) Off the coast of Russia 200. Who launched the historic torch relay for the 44th Chess
(b) Off the coast of Australia Olympiad at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi?
(c) Off the coast of North America (a) Viswanathan Anand (b) Narendra Modi
(d) Off the coast of Japan (c) M K Stalin (d) Arkady Dvorkovich
187. NPCI International has signed an MoU with which
country‘s Lyra network for acceptance of UPI ANSWER KEYS
&Rupay Card? 1. b 2. b 3. a 4. d 5. b
(a) France (b) Japan 6. d 7. c 8. a 9. c 10. d
(c) USA (d) South Korea 11. b 12. d 13. c 14. d 15. c
188. 37-member Indian athletics team for the upcoming 16. d 17. c 18. d 19. d 20. b
Commonwealth Games will be led by? 21. b 22. c 23. a 24. a 25. d
(a) Neeraj Chopra 26. a 27. a 28. b 29. d 30. b
(b) Seema Punia 31. c 32. b 33. d 34. b 35. a
(c) Navjeet Kaur Dhillon 36. d 37. d 38. b 39. b 40. d
(d) Avinash Sable 41. d 42. a 43. d 44. b 45. b
189. What is Equitas Small Finance Bank‘s exclusive 46. d 47. d 48. d 49. b 50. d
savings account for kids named as? 51. d 52. d 53. a 54. a 55. d
(a) MyLife (b) KiddieZone 56. b 57. b 58. b 59. b 60. c
(c) MySavings (d) Enjoi 61. d 62. d 63. d 64. a 65. c
190. RBI in its ‗Payments Vision 2025‘ aims to increase 66. c 67. c 68. a 69. d 70. d
the number of digital payment transactions by more 71. c 72. c 73. b 74. d 75. d
than _____ by 2025. 76. d 77. a 78. c 79. c 80. d
(a) 2-fold (b) 3-fold (c) 4-fold (d) 5-fold 81. a 82. d 83. c 84. d 85. a
191. Which country will continue to be on the ―Grey 86. d 87. a 88. d 89. c 90. d
List‖ of countries under increased monitoring of the 91. b 92. a 93. d 94. c 95. a
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)? 96. d 97. d 98. b 99. a 100. d
(a) Pakistan (b) Turkey 101. b 102. a 103. c 104. d 105. b
(c) Iran (d) Syria 106. a 107. d 108. d 109. d 110. d
192. As per Kantar Brandz, 2022 ‗Most Valuable Global 111. a 112. c 113. b 114. d 115. a
Brands report‘, which company was the most 116. d 117. b 118. c 119. b 120. a
valuable brand coming out of India? 121. c 122. c 123. c 124. d 125. a
(a) HDFC Bank 126. b 127. d 128. d 129. d 130. b
(b) Tata Consultancy Service 131. b 132. d 133. a 134. a 135. c
(c) Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) 136. b 137. b 138. a 139. d 140. c
(d) Infosys 141. c 142. b 143. d 144. d 145. b
193. Which of the following airport has been named the 146. d 147. c 148. d 149. c 150. b
World‘s Best Airport for the second year running? 151. d 152. b 153. b 154. a 155. a
(a) Istanbul Airport 156. d 157. b 158. d 159. d 160. d
(b) Singapore Changi Airport 161. b 162. d 163. a 164. d 165. b
(c) Hamad International Airport 166. b 167. d 168. d 169. b 170. c
(d) Haneda Airport 171. d 172. c 173. c 174. d 175. d
194. What is the theme of International Yoga Day 2022? 176. b 177. c 178. d 179. d 180. a
(a) Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family 181. b 182. d 183. b 184. a 185. d
(b) Yoga for Humanity 186. b 187. a 188. a 189. d 190. b
(c) Yoga for Harmony and Peace 191. a 192. b 193. c 194. b 195. d
(d) Yoga for Peace 196. d 197. b 198. c 199. a 200. b
195. Who has becomes the joint 5th highest goalscorer in
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100 GK QUESTIONS FOR

SSC & RAILWAY
1. Who among the following sultans of Delhi assumed
the title Sikandar-i-Sani ?
(a) Muhammad bin Tughluq
(b) Sikandar Lodi
(c) Alauddin Khilji
(d) Balban
2. Malik Kafur was General of
(a) Firuz Shah Tughlaq (b) Chandragupta Maurya
(c) Bimbisara (d) AlauddinKhiliji
3. The Battle of Haldighati was fought in
(a) 1765 AD (b) 1576 AD
(c) 1756 AD (d) 1576 BC
4. Zabti system was introduced by
(a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq (b) Sikander Lodi
(c) Sher Shah (d) Akbar
5. Who was the Sikh Guru to be slaughtered by
Aurangzeb ?
(a) Ram Das (b) Tegh Bahadur
(c) Arjun Dev (d) Gobind Singh
6. In Mughal era duty of Mir Bakshi was 15. Where was Azad Hind Fauz set up in 1943.
(a) charged tax from farmers (a) Japan (b) Burma
(b) Maintaining account of income and expansion (c) Singapore (d) Malaya
(c) Justice 16. At the Winter Solstice the noon altitude of the Sun
(d) supervision of land revenue officials at the Tropic of Cancer is
7. The President of the Surat Session of Indian (a) 23.5o (b) 43.0o
National Congress (1907) was (c) 47.0o (d) 66.5o
(a) DadabhaiNaoroji 17. The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (a) India (b) Pakistan
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhle (c) Bangladesh (d) Myanmar
(d) RB Ghosh 18. Jet streams are usually found in the
8. Morley-Minto Reforms Bill was passed in (a) Ozonosphere (b) Mesosphere
(a) 1905 (b) 1909 (c) Troposphere (d) Ionosphere
(c) 1911 (d) 1920 19. The mass of water vapour per unit volume of air is
9. The Rowlatt Act was passed in the year known as
(a) 1917 (b) 1919 (a) relative humidity (b) specific humidity
(c) 1921 (d) 1923 (c) absolute humidity (d) variable humidity
10. Which important event immediately preceded 20. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ? (a) Earth on the Moon
(a) Non-Cooperation Movement (b) Earth on the Sun
(b) Enactment of Rowlatt Act (c) Sun and Moon on the Earth
(c) Communal Award (d) Moon on the Earth
(d) Arrival of Simon Commission 21. Spring tides occur on
11. Why did Rabindranath Tagore refuse Knighthood ? (a) full moon day only
(a) Due to Partition of Bengal (b) new moon day only
(b) In protest of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (c) the day when the moon‘s position is in its first
(c) Withdrawl of Non-Cooperation Movement quarter
(d) In protest of Alipur Conspiracy Case (d) full moon day as well as on new moon day
12. Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was formed 22. ‗Saddle Peak‘ the highest peak of Andaman and
by Nicobar islands is located in
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose (a) Great Nicobar (b) Middle Andaman
(b) Rash Behari Bose (c) Little Andaman (d) North Andaman
(c) Chandra Shekhar Azad 23. Which of the following is geographically closest to
(d) Sardar Bhagat Singh Great Nicobar ?
13. Kakori Conspiracy case took place in the year (a) Sumatra (b) Borneo
(a) 1920 (b) 1925 (c) Java (d) Sri Lanka
(c) 1930 (d) 1935 24. Which of the following rivers does not have its
14. The famous INA trials took place in Red Fort, Delhi source in glaciers ?
in (a) Yamuna (b) Alaknanda
(a) 1945 (b) 1946 (c) Kosi (d) Mandakini
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(a) Mahi (b) Ghaghara 39. If a question arises whether a Bill is a Money Bill or
(c) Narmada (d) Krishna not, whose decision shall be the final ?
26. Climate of India is influenced by (a) The Supreme Court of India
(a) physiography of landmass (b) The President of India
(b) distance from equator (c) The Speaker of the Lok Sabha
(c) Himalayas (d) The Joint of Parliamentary Committee
(d) All of the above 40. The Speaker of the Lok sabha may resign his office
27. In India, maximum rainfall is received from by writing, addressed to the
(a) Western Disturbances (a) President of India
(b) North-East Monsoon (b) Prime Minister of India
(c) South-West Monsoon (c) Vice-President of India
(d) Retreating Monsoon (d) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha
28. In India the maximum area is covered by the 41. Who is generally appointed as a ProtemSpeaker ?
(a) Lateritic soils (b) Red soils (a) The speaker of the outgoing Lok Sabha
(c) Black soils (d) Alluvial soils (b) The Deputy Speaker of the outgoing Lok
29. Khadar and Bhangar belongs to which soil ? Sabha
(a) Alluvial (b) Black (c) One of the seniormost members of the newly
(c) Laterite (d) Red elected Lok Sabha
30. Which Article of the Constitution of India (d) The leader of the opposition party in the
safeguards one‘s right to marry the person of one‘s outgoing Lok Sabha
choice? 42. Under which Article, the Supreme Court has the
(a) Article 19 (b) Article 21 power to review its own judgement of order ?
(c) Article 25 (d) Article 29 (a) Article 137 (b) Article 254
31. Article 21 of Indian Constitution secures (c) Article 256 (d) Article 142
(a) Right to life only 43. How many types of writs can be issued by the
(b) Right to personal liberty only Supreme Court ?
(c) Right to liberty and privacy (a) 2 (b) 3
(d) Right to life, personal liberty and right to privacy (c) 5 (d) 6
32. Other than ‗Right to Life‘ which other right is 44. The power of the Supreme Court to decide in the
mentioned in Article 21 of Indian Constitution. case of dispute between two or more States is called
(a) right to Education (b) Right to Freedom (a) original jurisdiction (b) inherent jurisdiction
(c) Right to Equality (d) Right to Food (c) plenary jurisdiction (d) advisory jurisdiction
33. Right to Information in India is a 45. Which of the following fixes the poverty line in
(a) Fundamental Right India ?
(b) Legal Right (a) Central Council of Ministers
(c) Both Fundamental and Legal Right (b) Lok Sabha
(d) Neither Fundamental nor Legal Right (c) Rajya Sabha
34. Which of the following is correct about the Right to (d) Planning Commission (now. NITI Aayog)
Education ? 46. The Mission Indradhanush, an initiative of
(a) It is provided in Article 21A Government of India, is associated with
(b) It is provided by 86th amendment (a) immunisation (b) highway development
(c) It is provided for children between 6-14 years (c) digitalisation (d) cleanliness
of age 47. What is the major aim of Pradhan Mantri
(d) All of the above UjjwalaYojona?
35. Which of the following Constitutional Amendment (a) To provide electricity
Act, removed the provision containing reservation (b) To provide LED bulbs
of seats for Anglo-Indian Community in the Lok (c) To provide LPG connections
Sabha? (d) To construct village roads
(a) 104th Constitutional Amendment 48. The contribution of agriculture in Indian economy is
(b) 103rd Constitutional Amendment (a) increasing (b) decreasing
(c) 102nd Constitutional Amendment (c) constant (d) None of the above
(d) 101st Constitutional Amendment 49. Which of the following one is not a cash crop ?
36. What is the minimum age required to become a (a) Tobacco (b) Cotton
member of Lok Sabha ? (c) Soybean (d) Rubber
(a) Twenty years (b) Thirty years 50. Reserve Bank of India gives short term loans at
(c) Twenty two years (d) Twenty five years ______ to commercial banks.
37. The Lok Sabha elected after the 2019 elections is (a) Interest rate (b) bank rate
the ______ Lok Sabha. (c) reserve repo rate (d) repo rate
(a) 18th (b) 16th 51. If the inflation in an economy is rising steadily, the
(c) 15th (d) 17th Central Bank might
38. Who presides over the joint sitting of the Lok Sabha (a) increase the repo rate
and the Rajya Sabha ? (b) decrease the reverse repo rate
(a) Speaker of Lok Sabha (c) decrease the repo rate
(b) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha (d) keep the repo rate unchanged
(c) Prime Minister 52. State Bank of India was previously known as
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(c) Imperial Bank of India 65. Rate of evaporation increases with

(d) Canara Bank (a) an increase of surface area
53. ‗Non-Performing Assets‘ (NPA) of Indian (b) an increase in humidity
Commercial Bank are (c) a decrease in wind speed
(a) buildings and Land (d) a decrease of temperature
(b) loans not rapid within stipulated time 66. When a ray of light enters a glass slab, then
(c) government securities (a) only the frequency change
(d) cash holding (b) frequency and velocity change
54. Which bank is limited to the needs of agriculture (c) frequency does not change
and rural finance? (d) frequency and wavelength change
(a) SBI (b) NABARD 67. _________ is not an example of refraction of light.
(c) IFC (d) RBI (a) Twinkling effect of stars
55. The export and import of goods between two (b) Mirages
countries is called (c) Lateral inversion
(a) international relation (b) international trade (d) Bending of light while passing through a
(c) international forum (d) All of the above medium
56. Oscillatory motion is that motion 68. A lemon kept in water in a glass tumbler appears to
(a) in which a body moves to and fro be larger than its actual size. It is because of
(b) in which a body moves in a straight line (a) reflection of light (b) scattering of light
(c) in which a body moves in a parabolic path (c) refraction of light (d) polarisation of light
(d) None of the above 69. A body is charged negatively. It implies that
57. Which of the following is an example of simple (a) it has last some of its protons
harmonic motion? (b) it has lost some of its electrons
(a) Earth spinning on its axis (c) it has gained some electrons from outside
(b) Simple pendulum motion (d) None of the above
(c) Ball bouncing on floor 70. Atomic number of an atom gives the number of
(d) Motion of a ceiling fan which of the following ?
58. The period of a simple pendulum is doubled, when (a) Electrons (b) Protons
(a) its length is doubled (c) Neutrons (d) Neutrons and Protons
(b) the Mass of the bob is doubled 71. In atom, neutron was discovered by
(c) its length is made four times (a) JJ Thomson (b) Chadwick
(d) The Mass of the bob and the length of the (c) Rutherford (d) Newton
pendulum are doubled 72. Water is a good solvent. This is due to high
59. Velocity of sound in air (a) dielectric constant of water
I. Decreases with temperature (b) surface tension of water
II. Increases with temperature (c) specific heat of water
III. Increases with pressure (d) heat fusion of water
IV. Is independent of pressure 73. Which one of the following substances is not a
which of the above the true ? mixture?
(a) II and III (b) I, II and III (a) Ice (b) Ice-cream
(c) II and IV (d) I, II, III and IV (c) Air (d) Honey
60. The full form of SONAR is 74. Azeotropic mixtures are
(a) Sonographic Navigation And Radiation (a) mixture of two solids.
(b) Sound Navigation And Ranging (b) those which boil at different temperatures
(c) Sonographic Navigation Around Radiation (c) those which can be fractionally distilled.
(d) Sonographic Navigation and Auto Ranging (d) the constant boiling mixture
61. Due to which phenomena sound is heard at longer 75. Muddy water is purified by adding alum due to
distance in nights than in day. (a) osmosis (b) emulsification
(a) Reflection (c) coagulation (d) dialysis
(b) Refraction 76. If a refrigerator‘s door is kept open, then
(c) Interference of sound (a) room will be cooled
(d) Diffraction of sound (b) room will be heated
62. The working principle of a mercury thermometer is (c) room may get cooled or heated depending upon
(a) change in density of matter on heating he weather.
(b) expansion of matter on heating. (d) no effect
(c) thermal resistance of matter 77. A fan produces a feeling of comfort during hot
(d) change in mass of matter on heating weather, because
63. The temperature of the sun is measured with (a) our body radiates more that in air.
(a) platinum thermometer (b) fan supplies cool air.
(b) gas thermometer (c) conductivity of air increases.
(c) pyrometer (d) our perspiration evaporates rapidly.
(d) vapour pressure thermometer 78. In the pressure cooker, cooking is fast because the
64. Water is used in a hot water bag because increase in vapour pressure
(a) it is easily available (a) increases the specific heat.
(b) it has high specific gravity (b) decreases the specific heat.
(c) it has high specific heat (c) decreases the boiling point.
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79. Which of the following statements about phloem (a) ICICI Bank (b) Axis Bank
transport is correct ? (c) Yes Bank (d) HDFC Bank
(a) Phloem transport occurs unidirectionally. 94. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed
(b) Gravity influences phloem transport. whom as H.S. Managing Director general?
(c) Ca+ is the most abundantcation in phloem sap. (a) Kishore Singh (b) Woochong UM
(d) Sugar is transported in phloem as non-reducing (c) Roger Fischer (d) Rajesh Khullar
sugar. 95. Which state has received the Award for fastest
80. Process by which plant prepare their food is implementation of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman
(a) carbohydrolysis (b)metabolic synthesis Hindi Yojana ?
(c) photosynthesis (d) photorespiration (a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh
81. First step of photosynthesis is (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Odisha
(a) activation of chlorophyll by sunlight. 96. Who has been received the Astronomical society of
(b) oxygen comes out from water. India (ASI) New Discovery Award 2021?
(c) formation of carbohydrate. (a) ISRO (b) IUCAA
(d) fixation of carbon dioxide (c) NASA (d) DRDO
82. Which one of the following diseases may be caused 97. Irakli Garibashvili has become the new Prime
by the deficiency of Vitamin-C ? Minister of which country?
(a) Rickets (b) Rabies (a) Azerbaijan (b) Georgia
(c) Hepatitis (d) Scurvy (c) France (d) Peru
83. The action of pepsin is to 98. Which has become the first country to receive
(a) curdle milk covid-19 vaccines through the World Health
(b) breakdown proteins to peptones. Organisation backed Covaxprogram?
(c) break down polypeptide into amino acids. (a) FIJI (b) GHANA
(d) breakdown polysaccharides disaccharides. (c) EGYPT (d) LEBANON
84. Bile is stored in 99. Who has become the youngest female to row Solo
(a) mouth (b) liver across the Atlantic Ocean ?
(c) gall bladder (d) stomach (a) Jasmine Harrison (b) Tamara Grigsby
85. Which among the following is the food tube ? (c) Mariko Yamada (d) Celia Williamson
(a) Thymus (b) Larynx 100. External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar has
(c) Aorta (d) Oesophagus inaugurated the new Indian High Commission
86. The book ‗The Origin of Species‘ was written by building in which country ?
(a) Linnaeus (b) Lamarck (a) Mauritius (b) Japan
(c) Mendel (d) Darwin (c) Bangladesh (d) Bhutan
87. The mutation theory of evolution was enunciated by
(a) Huxley (b) Darwin ANSWER KEYS
(c) Lamarck (d) Hugo de Vries
88. Genetic drift operates in 1 c 26 d 51 a 76 b
(a) large isolated population 2 d 27 c 52 c 77 d
(b) small isolated population 3 b 28 d 53 b 78 d
(c) fast reproductive population 4 d 29 a 54 b 79 d
(d) slow reproductive population 5 b 30 b 55 a 80 c
89. Which is the true for glycolysis ? 6 d 31 d 56 a 81 a
(a) It is not common to both aerobic and anaerobic 7 d 32 d 57 b 82 d
respiration 8 b 33 a 58 c 83 b
(b) Substrate level phosphorylation 9 b 34 d 59 c 84 c
(c) Expenditure of H2O 10 b 35 a 60 b 85 d
(d) Production of NAD 11 b 36 d 61 b 86 d
90. Which of the following processes makes direct use 12 c 37 d 62 b 87 d
of oxygen ? 13 b 38 a 63 c 88 c
(a) Glycolysis (b) Fermentation 14 a 39 c 64 c 89 b
(c) Citic Acid Cycle (d) Electron transport 15 c 40 d 65 a 90 d
91. Who is the chairman of Central Board of Direct 16 d 41 c 66 c 91 b
taxes (CBDT) ? 17 b 42 a 67 c 92 b
(a) Ajith kumar (b) PC Modi 18 c 43 c 68 c 93 a
(c) yCmodi (d) Ajay tayagi 19 c 44 a 69 c 94 b
92. Who has won Gold Medal at the XXIV outstanding 20 c 45 d 70 b 95 c
Ukraiman wrestlers and coaches Memorial 21 d 46 a 71 b 96 b
tournament? 22 d 47 c 72 a 97 b
(a) Sakshi Phogat (b) VineshPhogat 23 a 48 b 73 a 98 b
(c) Bajrang Punia (d) Mary Kom 24 c 49 c 74 d 99 a
93. Which bank has launched a contactless prepaid card 25 b 50 d 75 c 100 a
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40 COMPUTER
MCQs
1. What are the basic functionality of the computer
system?
1. Input, processing, output and storage
2 Learning, thinking, intelligence and virtuosity
3. Data, information, bits and bytes
4. Hardware, software, modeling and operations
5. None of these.
2. What is a spooler?
1. Location in memory that maintains the
contents of a document until it prints out
2. Print job
3. Program that coordinates the print jobs that 2. application program
are waiting to print 3. data definition language
4. Message sent from the printer to the 4. code
operating system when a print job is 5. All of these
completed 12. Which of the following memories is an optical
5. None of these. memory?
3. _________ is a primary key creating a 1. Floppy Disk 2. Bubble Memories
relationship between or among the tables? 3. CD–ROM 4. Core Memories
1. Physical key 2. Primary key 5. None of these
3. Foreign key 4. Logical key 13. A device designed to read information encoded
5. None of these onto a small plastic card is?
4. A set of flip-flops integrated together is called 1. light pen 2. punch card
____? 3. magnetic tape 4. MICR
1. Counter 2. Adder 5. badge reader
3. Register 4. Flip flop 14. What is gutter margin?
5. All of the above 1. Margin that is added to the left margin when
5. The capacity of a communication channel is printing
measured in ___? 2. Margin that is added to right margin when
1. Bandwidth 2. Bit capacity printing
3. Baud rate 4. Data flow 3. Margin that is added to the binding side of
5. Store data page when printing
6. Verification of a login name and password is 4. Margin that is added to the outside of the
known as? page when printing
1. configuration 2. accessibility 5. None of these
3. authentication 4. logging in 15. Which key is used in combination with another
5. None of these key to perform a specific task?
7. Personal information and views posted on the 1. Function 2. Control
Web are known as :? 3. Arrow 4. Space bar
1. listservs 2. Webcasts 5. None of these
3. blogs 4. subject directories 16. A byte can hold one ____________ of data?
5. None of these 1. bit 2. binary digit
8. Linux is a(n) ........ operating system? 3. character 4. kilobyte
1. open-source 2. Microsoft 5. None of these
3. Windows 4. Mac 17. What does ASCII stand for?
5. None of these 1. Array of Simple Character Iteration Indices
9. Which of the following is used for close a tab on 2. Another Stupid Character Identification Idea
a browser? 3. Alternate Source Code Image Improvement
1.Ctrl + T 2.Ctrl + W 4. None of these
3.Ctrl + A 4.Ctrl + Y 5. American Standard Code for Information
5.None of these Interchange.
10. ………………is the process of carrying out 18. In which language is source program written?
commands? 1. English 2. Symbolic
1. Fetching 2. Storing 3. High level 4. Temporary
3. Executing 4. Decoding 5. None of these
5. None of these 19. The internet began with the development of?
11. A ......... is used to define overall design of the 1. USENET 2. ARPANET
database? 3. Ethernet 4. Intranet
1. schema 5. None of these

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20. Multiple choice examination answer sheets can 3. Programmable 4. Sensor
be evaluated automatically by? 5. All of these
1. Optical Character Reader 31. A record of columns in DBMS is called?
2. Optical Mark Recognition 1. Field 2. Label
3. Magnetic tape reader 3. Matrix 4. Tuple
4. Magnetic ink character recognition 5. None of these
5. None of these 32. The most important or power-full computer in a
21. Which of the following is a programming typical network is?
language? 1. Network station 2. Network server
1. Lotus 2. Pascal 3. Network client 4. Desktop
3. MS-Excel 4. Netscape 5. None of these
5. All of these 33. In which of the following form, data is stored in
22. Which converts the user data into machine computer?
readable form? 1. Binary 2. Octal
1. input unit, output unit, control unit 3. Hexa-Decimal 4. Octal
2. central processing unit 5. None of these
3. output unit 34. Who was the Founder of Bluetooth?
4. decoder unit 1. Andy Rubin 2. Martin Cooper
5. All of these 3. Ericson 4. Steve Jobs
23. In what respect human beings are superior to 5. None of these
computers? 35. Devices that let the computer communicate with
1. Diligence 2. Intelligence you are called?
3. Slavery 4. Reliability 1. Input devices 2. Output devices
5. All of these 3. Type devices 4. Print devices
24. As compared to the secondary memory, the 5. None of these
primary memory of a computer is 36. The smallest item of useful information that a
1. Large 2. Cheap computer can handle is called?
3. Fast 4. Slow 1. Bait 2. Bit
5. All of these 3. Byte 4. Bite
25. The language that the computer can understand 5. None of these
and execute is called 37. Transmission media are usually categorized as?
1. Machine language 2. Application software 1. Determinate or indeterminate
3. System program 4. All of these 2. Fixed or unfixed 3. Guided or unguided
5. None of these 4. Neither 1 and 2 5. All of the above
26. How was the generation of computer classified? 38. Which one of the following is a guided
1. by the device used in memory & processor transmission line?
2. by the speed of computer 1. Pair of wires 2. Optical fiber cable
3. by the model of the computer 3. Coaxial cable 4. Twisted pair
4. by the accuracy of computer 5. All of the above
5. All of these 39. Which output device is used for translating
27. Which of the following is not a feature of first information from a computer into pictorial form
generation computers on paper?
1. They used vacuum tubes or valves as main 1. Mouse 2. Plotter
electronic component 3. Touch panel 4. Card punch
2. They consumed lots of electricity and 5. None of these
produced excessive heat 40. The list of coded instructions is called?
3. They used machine language and assembly 1. Computer program 2. Algorithm
language to program the machine 3. Flowchart 4. Utility programs
4. None of these 5. None of these
5. All of these
28. CAD stands for
1. Computer aided design
ANSWER KEYS
1 1 11 1 21 2 31 1
2. Computer algorithm for design
2 3 12 3 22 1 32 2
3. Computer application in design
3 3 13 5 23 2 33 1
4. All of these
4 3 14 3 24 3 34 3
5. None of these
5 1 15 5 25 1 35 2
29. Which of the following memories has the
6 3 16 3 26 1 36 2
shortest access times?
7 3 17 5 27 3 37 3
1. Cache memory
8 1 18 3 28 1 38 5
2. Magnetic bubble memory
9 2 19 2 29 1 39 2
3. Magnetic core memory
10 3 20 2 30 4 40 1
4. RAM
5. All of these
30. A small or intelligent device is so called because
it contains within it a
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20 BANKING AWARENESS
MCQS
9. Which of the following is not a function of the
Reserve Bank of India?
(a) Controller of Credit
(b) Note Issue
(c) Banker‘s Bank
(d) Acceptance of Deposits from Public
(e) None of these
10. The ratio between cash in hand and out of total
deposits maintained by the banks is called:
(a) SBR (Statutory Bank Ratio)
(b)SLR (Statutory Liquid Ratio)
(c) CBR (Central Bank Reserve)
1. Maximum amount of transfer required for (d) CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio)
Immediate Payment Service is Rs ___________. (e) None of these
(a) 2,00,000 (b)5,00,000 11. Identify the Punishable offence by a Bank Account
(c)1,00,000 (d)1,50,000 Holder?
(e)None of these (a) If a cheque is not crossed
2. Bill of exchange is defined under ___________. (b) If a post dated cheque is issued
(a) Section 1 (b)Section 3 (c) If a cheque drawn by him is dishonoured for
(c)Section 4 (d) Section 5 insufficiency of funds in his account
(e)None of these (d) Issuing a cheque without signature
3. SEBI is a/an _________________. (e) None of these
(a) Advisory body 12. FCCB stands for –
(b) Statutory body (a) Foreign currency convertible bonds
(c) Constitutional body (b) Forex currency convertible bonds
(d) Non-statutory body (c) Form currency convertible bonds
(e) Registered as a society (d) Future currency convertible bonds
4. A bond that does not pay any interest rate is (e) None of these
considered as? 13. The sensitive Index of National Stock Exchange of
(a) Interest free bond India is popularly known as-
(b) Zero Coupon Bond (a) Sensex (b) CRIS
(c) Masala Bond (c) CSE (d) Nifty
(d) Useless Price Bonds (e) None of these
(e) Block chain Bonds 14. Free shares of stock given to share holders at
5. Non-bank entities must have net worth of at least present, based upon the number of shares that a
how much to be eligible for operating white label share holder owns are:
ATMs? (a) Right issues
(a) Rs. 100 cr. (b) Rs. 200 cr. (b) Bonus shares
(c) Rs. 300 cr. (d) Rs. 400 cr. (c) IPO
(e) Rs. 500 cr. (d) Preferential shares
6. What is very restricted form of banking, where the (e) None of these
institution is not allowed to take risks by giving 15. Source of funds for repayment of municipal bonds is
fresh loans to business? considered as
(a) Para Banking (a) local tax and revenue
(b) Offshore Banking (b) global tax and revenue
(c) Retail Banking (c) print notes
(d) Narrow Banking (d) commercial notes
(e) None of these (e) None of these
7. What percent of the Adjusted Net Bank Credit 16. Bonds that does not pay any interest rate are
(ANBC) should be in priority sector lending for considered as
Small Finance Banks? (a) interest free bond
(a) 25% (b) 40% (b) zero coupon bond
(c) 65% (d) 75% (c) price less coupon bond
(e) 85% (d) useless price bonds
8. Currency notes and coins are called as _____. (e) None of these
(a) Flat money (b) Legal tenders 17. ASBA" stands for –
(c) Fiat money (d) Both b and c (a) Application supported by bank account
(e) None of these (b) Application supported by balance account
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(e) None of these 20. Among the following which bank is insured by
18. ______________ is the distribution of insurance DICGC?
products and the insurance policies of insurance (a) Local Area Banks
companies by banks as corporate agents through (b) RRB
their branches. (c) Commercial Banks
(a) Insurance (b) Cross Selling (d) Foreign Banks in India
(c) Mutual Funds (d) Bancassurance (e) All the above
(e) None of these
19. _______________ is the time when a company ANSWER KEYS
makes the first offering of the shares to the public. 1. a 2. c 3. b 4. b 5. a
(a) Market Selling
6. d 7. d 8. d 9. d 10. b
(b) Open Selling
(c) Direct Selling
11. c 12. a 13. d 14. b 15. a
(d) Initial Public Offering 16. b 17. d 18. d 19. d 20. e
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PRACTICE SET
Upcoming Exam
RRB-PO (PRELIM)
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
Directions (Q.1-5) : Read the following information
carefully and answer the questions.
A certain number of persons visited a cool drinks shop
on Monday and 80% of the people who ordered at least
one of the three different health drinks i.e pear, broccoli in five different days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and grape juice. The ratio of the number of persons who Thursday and Friday) , the table given below shows the
ordered pear, broccoli and grape juice is 9 : 12 : 10 percentage of the number of radio clocks manufactured
respectively and the number of persons who ordered all and the ratio of the number of analog and digital clocks
three juices is 124. On that day, the ratio of the number manufactured on five different days.
of persons who ordered all three juices and the number of
persons who ordered only grape juice is 31 : 30 and the
number of persons who ordered only grape juice is 20%
of the number of persons who ordered grapes juices. The
number of persons who ordered only grapes juice is
55.55% of the number of persons who ordered both grape
and broccoli but not pear juice and the number of persons
who ordered only pear juice is 12 less than the number of
persons who ordered both grape and broccoli but not pear
juice.
1. If the ratio of the number of males to females who
ordered grapes and broccoli juice is 7 : 5 and 5 : 4
respectively, then find the number of females who
ordered grapes and broccoli juice? Days Percentage of Ratio of the
(a) 530 (b) 550 (c) 520 radio clocks number of
(d) 570 (e) None of these manufactured analog and
2. Find the difference between the number of persons digital clocks
who ordered exactly one juice and the number of manufactured
persons who ordered at least two juices? Monday 45% 6:5
(a) 70 (b) 50 (c) 80 Tuesday 25% 5:4
(d) 60 (e) None of these Wednesday 30% 9:5
3. If the cost price of the broccoli juice is Rs 70 per Thursday 40% 3:5
liter , the selling price of the broccoli juice is
Friday 20% 5:7
14.28% more than the cost price and then find the
6. If the number of clocks manufactured on Saturday is
total amount earned on 25% of the number of
14.28% more than that of Wednesday in which 40%
persons who ordered only broccoli juice (each
of the clocks are radio and then find the number of
person ordered only one liter)?
analog and digital clocks manufactured on
(a) Rs 6850 (b) Rs 6160 (c) Rs 6520
Saturday?
(d) Rs 6340 (e) None of these
(a) 192 (b) 176 (c) 184
4. If the ratio of the number of persons who ordered
(d) 168 (e) None of these
only neem and only grapes juice is 7 : 8 , the
7. The number of radio clocks manufactured on
number of persons who ordered only neem juice is
Wednesday and Friday together is what percentage
60% of the number of persons who ordered neem
of the number of digital clocks manufactured on
juice and then find the number of the persons who
Thursday?
ordered neem juice?
(a) 65% (b) 35% (c) 45%
(a) 145 (b) 195 (c) 175
(d) 75% (e) None of these
(d) 165 (e) None of these
8. On Friday, 62.5% of clocks are sold in which 75%
5. If the number of persons who ordered pear juice on
of the clocks are radio and analog clocks. If the
Tuesday is 8.33% more than that of Monday in
selling price of the digital clocks is Rs 250, then
which 20% of the persons ordered exactly one juice,
find the total amount earned on digital clocks?
then find the number of persons who ordered at least
(a) Rs 15260 (b) Rs 18750 (c) Rs 14740
two juice on Tuesday?
(d) Rs 11520 (e) None of these
(a) 468 (b) 462 (c) 466
9. If the number of musical clocks manufactured on
(d) 464 (e) None of these
Monday is 8.33% more than the radio clocks
Directions (Q.6-10) : Read the following information
manufactured on Monday, then find the total
carefully and answer the questions.
number of radio, analog, digital and musical clocks
The given bar graph shows the number of three different
manufactured on Monday?
clocks i.e radio, analog and digital clocks manufactured
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(d) 468 (e) None of these 21. ?  30 + 12% of 125 = 93 / 6  7
10. The number of analog clock manufactured on (a) 490 (b) 495 (c) 500
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday together is how (d) 505 (e) 510
much more/ less than the number of digital clocks
manufactured on Monday and Friday together? 22. 30% of 210 + 372  961 1500 4  ?
(a) 191 more (b) 152 less (c) 175 less (a) 250 (b) 350 (c) 450
(d) 187 more (e) None of these (d) 550 (e) 650
11. The ratio of the number of boys to girls in the class Directions (Q.23-28) : What approximate value
A is 3 : 2 and the ratio of the number of boys to girls should come in place of (?) in the following questions?
in the class B is 4 : 5. If the ratio of the total number 23. 6 1  5 3  4 5  ?  1 5  3 7
of students in class A to B is 5 : 9 and the difference 5 4 6 12 8
between the number of students in class A and B is (a) 13 (b) 7 (c) 18
16. What is the ratio of the number of boys in class (d) 10 (e) 15
A to the number of girls in class B?
(a) 3 : 5 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 3 : 4 24. 18.232  9.742  325.17  79.55 ?
(d) 5 : 7 (e) None of these 154.75  575.8  5.91
12. Ratio of the distance between A to B and B to C is 2 (a) 15 (b) 20 (c) 25
: 1. The car runs at the speed to cover the distance (d) 30 (e) 35
between A to B is 40 kmph and the same car runs at 25. 647.52 8.99  2 /13of 246  14% of 499
the sped to cover the distance between B to C is 30
kmph. If the time taken by the car to cover the  ?2  219.6
whole distance in 5 hours, then find the distance (a) 24 (b) 20 (c) 26
between A to C? (d) 18 (e) 22
(a) 120 km
(d) 200 km
(b) 150 km
(e) None of these
(c) 180 km
26. 840.98  2.99  ? 117.02
13. Pipe A , B and C together can fill the tank in 8 hours  80.95 9.034 172.97
and pipe A and C together can fill the tank in 12 (a) 80 (b) 100 (c) 120
hours. In how many hours can pipe B alone fill the (d) 140 (e) 90
tank, if pipe B fill the tank in double of the 27. 44.954% of 59.905 + 119.911 % of 75.174 +
efficiency? 12.509% of 79.910 = ?
(a) 10 hours (b) 12 hours (c) 14 hours (a) 137 (b) 127 (c) 147
(d) 16 hours (e) None of these (d) 151 (e) 157
14. How many three digit numbers can be formed with 28. 83.33% of 191.95 + 33.33% of 278.94 + ? =
the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 , if repetition of digits is 273.190
allowed? (a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 40
(a) 120 (b) 240 (c) 144 (d) 50 (e) 60
(d) 720 (e) None of these Directions (Q.29-34) : What value should come in
15. Out of two numbers, 5 times the larger one is less place of (?) in the following questions?
than 6 times the smaller one by 10. If the sum of the 29. 15 , 30, 70, 145, 265 , ?
numbers is larger than 15 times their difference (a) 420 (b) 430 (c) 410
(larger one – smaller one) by 8, find the numbers (d) 440 (e) 450
(a) 25,28 (b) 28, 24 (c) 16, 19 30. 2, 19, 45, ? , 132, 197
(d) 19, 15 (e) None of these (a) 90 (b) 96 (c) 82
16. A sum of money is lent for 2 years at 10% pa (d) 88 (e) 78
compound interest. It yields Rs 8.81 more when 31. 3, 17, 46, 92, 157, ?
compounded semi annually then compounded (a) 267 (b) 232 (c) 256
annually. What is the sum lent? (d) 227 (e) 243
(a) 1000 (b) 1200 (c) 1400 32. 156, 132, ?, 60, 36, 24
(d) 1600 (e) None of these (a) 80 (b) 84 (c) 96
Directions (Q.17-22) : What value should come in the (d) 98 (e) 78
placed of (?) in the following questions? 33. 11, 11, 13, 19, 31, ?
17. 242 16 48 92  6 ?  36% of 1500 (a) 41 (b) 51 (c) 43
(d) 49 (e) 55
(a) 434.5 (b) 523 (c) 556 34. 36, 72, ? , 540, 1890, 7560
(d) 391.5 (e) None of these (a) 270 (b) 144 (c) 180
18. 1/9 of 6561 – 4/5 of 1350 + 25% of 8000 = 1/8 of (d) 288 (e) 360
4800 + ? Directions (Q.35-40) : Find out the wrong number in
(a) 849 (b) 949 (c) 1049 the following number series.
(d) 749 (e) None of these 35. 20, 42, 130, 520, 2605
19. 75% of 280 - 196 4  ? 112 (a) 42 (b) 520 (c) 2605
(d) 20 (e) 130
(a) 228 (b) 232 (c) 236
36. 452, 480, 545, 672, 888, 1232
(d) 266 (e) 246
(a) 480 (b) 672 (c) 1232
1714 38 ?  9409 64
2
20. (d) 888 (e) 545
(a) 21 (b) 22 (c) 17 37. 384, 315, 248, 183, 120, 100
(d) 15 (e) 19 (a) 120 (b) 183 (c) 100
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38. 524, 645, 812, 1039, 1328, 1689 Conclusions:

(a) 812 (b) 1039 (c) 524 (a) Some swans are bulls.
(d) 645 (e) 1328 (b) Some swans are stairs.
39. 7, 15, 27, 43, 63, 89, 115, 147 (c) All swans being stairs is a possibility.
(a) 115 (b) 89 (c) 147 (d) No stair is bull.
(d) 27 (e) 63 (e) All jacks being bulls is a possibility
40. 2, 27, 224, 1575, 9452, 47285 Directions (Q.47-50) : Study the following
(a) 27 (b) 47285 (c) 9452 arrangement carefully and answer the questions given
(d) 224 (e) 1575 below.
Seven persons were born in seven different years from
REASONING ABILITY 1979 to 1985. At least four persons were born after X. K
Directions (Q.41-43) : Study the following was born immediately before M. Two persons were born
arrangement carefully and answer the questions given in between T and C. C was not born before 1982. B was
below. born immediately before T but not in the year 1979.
Seven villages P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are at certain More than one person was born in between V and M. V
distances from each other. Village Q is 10 km to the east and X were not born in consecutive years. No two
of U and 7 km to the north of P. Village R is 9 km to the persons were born in the same year.
south of S. Village S is 10 km to the east of P. Village S 47. Who was born in the year 1981?
is 14 km to the west of V which is 13 km to the north of (a) V (b) M (c) X
T. (d) K (e) T
41. What is the shortest distance between Q and V? 48. How many persons were born in between T and K?
(a) 25 km (b) 20 km (c) 29 km (a) One (b) Three (c) None
(d) 17 km (e) 13 km (d) Two (e) More than three
42. Select the odd option pair considering the direction 49. Who was born immediately after C?
of the first village with respect to the second village (a) V (b) Nobody (c) X
in each pair. (d) K (e) M
(a) Q – S (b) V – P (c) P – R 50. Which of the following pairs were born in
(d) S – T (e) U - V consecutive years?
43. Village T is to the _______ of the village U. (a) CM (b) XB (c) TK
(a) East (b) North-east (c) North-west (d) MX (e) KV
(d) South-east (e) South 51. Six persons are living in a six-storey building in
44. Eight people were seated in two different rows and which the topmost floor is numbered six and the
facing each other, such that four people were seated lowermost floor is numbered one. Four persons live
in each row. People seated in row 1 were facing between Q and R. Two persons live between S and
north while the people seated in row 2 were facing T who lives immediately above P.S immediately
south. above R. U lives below Q. Who lives immediately
D was seated in row 1 and was facing the person above S?
seated at one end of the row. One person was seated (a) R (b) Q (c) P
between D and F. Q was seated to the immediate (d) U (e) Either P or Q
right of the person seated opposite to F. Two people 52. In a certain code 'CREATE' is coded as'@7*$#*'
were seated between Q and J. M is seated to the and 'WISH' is coded as '&926' then how will
immediate right of N. H is seated to the right of B. 'ARCHITECT' be coded as in the same code?
Who is seated opposite to H? (a) $7@9&#*@# (b) $7@69*#@#
(a) N (b) M (c) Q (c) $&@6#9*@# (d) $7@96*#@#
(d) J (e) B (e) $7@69#*@#
45. In the following question, a set of statements is Directions (Q.53-57) : Study the following
followed by some conclusions, one of which arrangement carefully and answer the questions given
definitely does not follow (or is not a possibility below.
of occurrence). Choose that conclusion as the Six persons are sitting in a linear row facing north. Six
answer. other persons are sitting in another linear row parallel to
Statements: the previous row facing south. Thus, a person in one row
No liver is a petal. All slabs are ants. is exactly behind a person in the other row. U is sitting at
Some corals are livers. No slab is a liver. the corner. One person is sitting in between U and B. B is
Conclusions: sitting exactly behind O. E is sitting second to the right of
(a) Some corals are ants. O. E is sitting exactly behind the person who is sitting to
(b) Some corals are petals. the immediate right of L. T is sitting second to the right
(c) All corals being petals is a possibility. of L. T is sitting behind the one who is sitting second to
(d) No petal is ant. the right of H. C is not sitting exactly behind L. P is
(e) All livers being ants is a possibility sitting exactly behind the person who is sitting to the
46. In the following question, a set of statements is immediate right of Y. Y is not a neighbour of O. S is
followed by some conclusions, one of which facing north. More than two persons are sitting in
definitely does not follow (or is not a possibility between R and C.
of occurrence). Choose that conclusion as the 53. Who is an immediate neighbour of C?
answer. (a) U (b) H (c) O
Statements: (d) E (e) Y
No jack is a stair. All mines are bulls. 54. Who is sitting exactly behind S?
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(d) H (e) E (e) 123 420 311
55. Who is sitting third to the right of Y? 65. Which of the following is the code for 'video
(a) None of the given (b) C game'?
(c) B (d) T (a) 203 712 (b) 481 311 (c) 107 402
(e) S (d) 481 917 (e) Cannot be determined
56. Who is sitting exactly behind the one who is sitting 66. If we can form a meaningful English word by using
second to the right of P? 2nd letter of the word ARMY, 3rd and 4th letters of
(a) Nobody (b) R (c) L the word FACE and 2nd and 3rd letter of the word
(d) S (e) H SMILE, then which of the following would be the
57. Which of the following pairs is facing the same 4th alphabet of the newly formed word. Mark 'X' as
direction? your answer if no such word can be formed and
(a) CB (b) PE (c) HY mark 'Z' if more than one such words can be formed.
(d) UR (e) LC (the counting is from left to right).
58. How many numbers are there between the number (a) I (b) M (c) E
which is third from the left end and the number third (d) X (e) Z
from the right end in 37982351459624, such that Directions (Q.67-71) : Study the following
those number(numbers) is(are) even and followed arrangement carefully and answer the questions given
immediately by a prime number? below.
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 Certain number of people were seated in a linear row
(d) 5 (e) 6 facing north. Information about only some of them is
Directions (Q.59-60) : Study the following known. P was seated eighth to the right of R. Three
arrangement carefully and answer the questions given people were seated between R and Q. Q was seated third
below. to the right of U. Three people were seated between U
Six persons have different number of shoes with them and S, where S was seated at the end. W is the immediate
such that no two persons have the same number of shoes. neighbour of S. Number of people seated between R and
The second highest number of shoes with a person is 10 W is one more than the number of people seated between
while the second lowest number of shoes with a person is R and V where V was seated at the end. Number of
5. The number of shoes with P is immediately higher people seated between V and X is same as the number of
than that with A. At least two persons have more number people seated between W and U. Number of people
of shoes than X has. The number of shoes with J is seated between R and T is half the number of people
immediately lower than that with S. F has more number seated between X and V. T is right of R.
of shoes than J has but less number of shoes than P has. F 67. How many people were seated to the right of T?
has more number of shoes than X has. X has higher (a) 10 (b) 7 (c) 14
number of shoes than S has. (d) 9 (e) 4
59. If the sum of the number of shoes with J and A is 14 68. How many people were seated between X and Q?
while the sum of the number of shoes with X and S (a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 11
is 13, then what is the sum of the number of shoes (d) 12 (e) 13
with J and X? 69. How many people were seated to the left of R?
(a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 15 (a) 12 (b) 13 (c) 8
(d) 11 (e) 9 (d) 14 (e) 11
60. Who among the following has the third highest 70. What is the position of R with respect to U?
number of shoes? (a) 7thto the right (b) 12thto the left
(a) X (b) A (c) P (c) 11thto the right (d) 9thto the left
(d) J (e) F (e) None of these
Directions (Q.61-65) : Study the following 71. How many people were seated between W and T?
arrangement carefully and answer the questions given (a) 10 (b) 11 (c) 12
below. (d) 13 (e) 14
In a certain coded language some statements are coded as Directions (Q.72-73) : Study the following
follows: arrangement carefully and answer the questions given
pubg a video game is coded as 712 311 402 917 below.
pubg is from korea is coded as 203 381 712 481 A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H are eight members of a family. A is the
korea is near china is coded as 481 272 420 203 brother of C. D is the daughter in law of E. B is the
corona originated in china is coded as 619 987 420 107 spouse of C's mother. F is the daughter of A. H is
61. Which of the following can be the code for 'corona'? married to F. D is the mother in law of H. G is the father
(a) 420 (b) 712 (c) 311 of E.
(d) 619 (e) 381 72. How is A related to G?
62. If the code for 'is' is 203 then what is the code for (a) Son in law (b) Father
'korea'? (c) Grandfather (d) Grandson
(a) 712 (b) 381 (c) 481 (e) None of these
(d) 272 (e) 420 73. How is B related to D?
63. Which word corresponds to the code '712'? (a) Mother (b) Father in law
(a) a (b) video (c) from (c) Nephew (d) Uncle
(d) game (e) pubg (e) Father
64. If the code for 'south' is '123' then what is the code 74. 6 persons A, B, C, D, E and F are standing around
for 'near south china'? circle such that some of them are facing towards the
(a) 123 712 203 (b) 107 619 123 centre and rest are facing away from the centre.
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C and D facing towards each other. B is standing to
the immediate right of both C and E. Number of
persons facing away from the centre are more than
those facing towards the centre. A is standing to the
immediate left of F. Who is standing 2nd to the left
of A?
(a) D (b) B (c) F
(d) E (e) C
75. Two statements numbered I and II are given below.
You have to decide whether the data provided in the
statements are sufficient to answer the question.
Seven people were born in seven consecutive years
from 1975. S was born in 1979. In which year was
G born?
I. K was born in an odd year immediately before
P. F was born in 1981. S was born before U but
after G.
II. L was born immediately before S. P was born
before G but after K. U was born after L.
(a) If the data in statement I alone are sufficient to
answer the question while the data in statement
II alone are not sufficient to answer the
question
(b) If the data in both statements I and II together
are not sufficient to answer the question
(c) If the data in statement II alone are sufficient to
answer the question while the data in
statement, I alone are not sufficient to answer
the question
(d) If the data either in statement I alone or in
statement II alone are sufficient to answer the
question
(e) If the data in both statements I and II together
are necessary to answer the question
76. The questions below consist of a question and two
statements numbered I and II given below it. You
have to decide whether the data provided in the
statements are sufficient to answer the question:
Seven friends- A, B, C, D, E, F and G sit in a linear
row facing either the south or north direction but not
necessarily in the same order. Two persons sit
between A and E. A and E face the north. Who is
sitting to the immediate right of F?
Statement I: D sits second to the right of E. B sits to
the immediate right of D. A sits at one of the ends.
Statement II: C sits third to the left of G and both
faces the north. E sits immediate to the left of G.
(a) If the data in statement I alone is sufficient to
answer the question, while the data in the
statement II alone is not sufficient to answer
the question.
(b) If the data in the statement II alone are
sufficient to answer the question, while the data
in the statement I alone is not sufficient to
answer the question.
(c) If the data either in statement I alone or in
statement II alone is sufficient to answer the
question.
(d) If the data in both statement I and statement II
together are sufficient to answer the question.
(e) If the data in both statement I and statement II
together are not sufficient to answer the
question.
Directions (Q.77-80) : Study the following
arrangement carefully and answer the questions given
below.
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Seven people P,Q,R,S,T,U,V participated in a formula
one race and used cars from different companies. These
cars reached the finish line one after the other. The BMW
car reached after the car which was fourth to reach the
finish line. Three cars reached the finish line between the
car driven by R and the BMW car. Two cars reached the
finish line between the car driven by R and the car driven
by S. The Maruti car reached just before the car driven
by S reached the finish line. The Audi Car reached the
finish line after the car driven by R but immediately
before the Tata car. The Tata car was driven by U. The
number of cars that reached the finish line between the
car driven by U and the car driven by Q is the same as
the number of cars between the car driven by P and the
car driven by Q. The car driven by T reached the finish
line before the car driven by V but not immediately did
not reach immediately before or after the Porsche car.
The Mahindra car reached after the Ferrari car.
77. How many cars reached the finish line after the
Porsche car?
(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 6
(d) 4 (e) None of the above
78. Which car was driven by T?
(a) Mahindra (b) Ferrari (c) Porsche
(d) Tata (e) BMW
79. Which is the third car to reach the finish line?
(a) Mahindra (b) Ferrari (c) Maruti
(d) Porsche (e) None of these
80. Which of these statements is true?
(a) The car driven by T reached immediately after
the car driven bsy R
(b) Q drove BMW car
(c) The Tata car reached the finish line last
(d) Maruti car reached the finish line before the car
driven by V
(e) All are true
EXPLANATIONS
(1-5)
Juice = 124
The number of persons who order only grapes juice =
124/31 × 30 = 120
The number of persons who order grapes juice = 120 ×
100/20 = 600
The number of persons who order pear juice = 600/10 ×
9 = 540
The number of persons who order broccoli juice =
600/10 × 12 = 720
The number of persons who order both grapes and
broccoli but not pear juice
= 120 × 100/55.55 = 120/5 × 9 = 216
The number of persons who order only pear juice = 216 –
12 = 204
The number of persons who order both pear and grapes
but not broccoli juice = 600 – 120 – 216 – 124 = 140
The number of persons who order both pear and broccoli
but not grapes juice = 540 – 204 – 124 – 140 = 72
The number of persons who order only broccoli juice =
720 – 72 – 124 – 216 = 308
The number of persons who ordered at least one of three
juice
= 204 + 72 + 308 + 124 + 140 + 216 + 120 = 1184
The number of persons who visited the cool drink shop =
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7. (d); The number of radio clocks manufactured on
Wednesday and Friday = 96 + 84 = 180
The number of digital clocks manufactured on
Thursday = 240
Required percentage = 180/240 × 100 = 75%
8. (b); The number of clocks manufactured on Friday =
480
1. (d); The number of persons who ordered grapes The number of clocks sold on Friday = 480/8 × 5 =
juice = 600 300
The number of females who ordered grapes juice = The number of digital clocks sold on Friday = 300 ×
600/12 × 5 = 250 ¼ = 75
The number of persons who ordered broccoli juice = The total amount earned on digital clocks on Friday
720 = 75 × 250 = Rs 18750
The number of females who ordered broccoli juice = 9. (c); The number of radio clocks manufactured on
720/9 × 4 = 320 Monday = 144
Required total = 250 + 320 = 570 The number of musical clocks manufactured on
2. (c); The number of persons who ordered exactly one Monday = 144/12 × 13 = 156
juice = 204 + 308 + 120 = 632 The number of radio, analog and digital clocks
The number of persons who ordered at least two manufactured on Monday = 320
juice = 140 + 72 + 124 + 216 = 552 The number of radio, analog , digital and musical
Required difference = 632 – 552 = 80 clocks manufactured on Monday = 320 + 156 = 476
3. (b); The number of persons who ordered only 10. (a); The number of analog clocks manufactured on
broccoli juice = 308 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday = 225 + 126 +
The selling price of the broccoli juice = 70/7 × 8 = 144 = 495
Rs 80 The number of digital clocks manufactured on
The total amount earned on broccoli juice = 80 × Monday and Friday = 80 + 224 = 304
308 × ¼ = Rs 6160 Required difference = 495 – 304 = 191 more
4. (c); The number of persons who ordered only grapes 11. (a); The ratio of the total number of students in class
juice = 120 A to B = 5 : 9 (5x, 9x)
The number of persons who ordered only neem 9x – 5x = 16
juice = 120/8 × 7 = 105 4x = 16
The number of persons who ordered neem juice = x=4
105 × 100/60 = 175 Total number of students in class A = 5 × 4 = 20
5. (a); The number of persons who ordered pear juice Total number of students in class B = 9 × 4 = 36
on Monday = 540 Number of boys in A = 3/5 × 20 = 12
The number of persons who ordered pear juice on Number of girls in B = 5/9 × 36 = 20
Tuesday = 540/12 × 13 = 585 Required ratio = 12 : 20
The number of persons who ordered at least two =3:5
juice on Tuesday = 585 × 4/5 = 468 12. (c); Distance = speed × time
(6-10) Total distance = 2x + x = 3x
The The 2x/40 + x/30 = 5
The
number number of The 6x+4x = 120 × 5
numb
of analog number x = 60
Days er of
clocks clocks of digital Total distance = 3 × 60 = 180 km
radio
manufa manufactu clocks 13. (b); Work done by A, B and C in one hour,
clocks
ctured red A + B + C = 1/8
Monday 320 320 × (320 – 144) 176 – 96 A + C = 1/12
9/20 = × 6/11 = 80 Work done by B in one hour,
144 =96 B = 1/8 – 1/12 = 1/24
Tuesday 540 540 × (540 – 135) 405 – 225 B‘s fill the tank in double of the efficiency = 2/24 =
¼ = × 5/9 = 180 1/12
135 = 225 So the tank can be filled in 12 hours by B.
Wednes 280 280× (280 – 84) 196 – 126 14. (e); Options of hundred‘s place = 5 (all digits)
day 3/10 = × 9/14 = = 70 Options for ten‘s place = 5 (all digits)
84 126 Options for unit‘s place = 5 (all digits)
Thursda 640 640 × (640 – 256) 384 – 144 Total number of ways = 5 × 5 × 5 = 125 ways
y 2/5 = × 3/8 = 144 = 240 15. (a); Let the numbers be x and y , such that x < y
256 6x – 5y = 10 (i)
Friday 480 480 × (480 – 96) 384 – 160 x  y 15 y  x 8
1/5 = × 5/12 = = 224
96 160 8x – 7y = 4 (ii)
On solving (i) and (ii) we get x = 25 and y = 28
6. (a); The number of clocks manufactured on
Wednesday = 280 16. (d); 8.81  p  1  5 / 1004  p  1  10 / 1002
The number of clocks manufactured on Saturday =
8.81  p 105/ 100  p 110/ 100
4 2
280 /7 × 8 = 320
The number of analog and digital clocks 8.81  p 21/ 20 21/ 20 21/ 20 21/ 20 121/ 100
manufactured on Saturday = 320 × 60/100 = 192 8.81 p 194481/ 160000121/ 100

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8.81 p 194481193600 / 160000 27. (b); 44.954 % of 59.905 + 119.911 % of 75.174 +

12.509 % of 79.910 = ?
8.81 p  881/ 160000 45% of 60 + 120% of 75 + 12.5% of 80 = ?
160000 × 8.81/881 = p 27 + 90 + 10 = ?
Solving it we will get p = 1600 127 = ?
28. (a); 83.334% of 191.95 + 33.33% of 278.94 + ? =
17. (d); 242 16 48 92  6x  36% of 1500 273.190
24 24 48/16 81 6x  36/1001500 5 / 6192 3 / 9 279 ?  273
1728 + 81 + 540 = 6x 160 + 93 + ? = 273
6x = 2349 ? = 20
29. (d); 15  151  30
x = 2349/6 = 391.5
18. (c); 1/9 or 6561 – 4/5 of 1350 + 25% of 8000 = 1/8
of 4800 + ? 30  20 2 70
 1 / 9  6561  4 / 5  1350  25 / 100  70  25 3145
8000  1 / 8  4800  ? 145 30 4  265
 7291080 2000 600 ? 265 35 5 440
1049 ?
30. (c); 2  42  1 19
19. (d); 75% of 280 - 196  4  ?  112
19  52  1  45
210 – 56 = ? – 112
266 = ? 45  62  1  82
20. (c); 17 × 14 – 38 = ?2  9409 64 82  7 2  1 132
238 – 38 = ?2  97  8 132 82  1 197
?  289
2
31. (e); 3  22  10 17
? = 17
21. (b); ?2  30  12% of 125  93 / 6  7 17  32  20  46
?/30 + 15 = 31.5
?/30 = 16.5 46  42  30  92
? = 495
92  52  40 157
22. (c); 30% of 210 + 372  961  1500 4  ?
63 + 12 + 375 = ?
157  62  50  243
450 = ? 32. (b); 1213156
23. (d); 6 1  5 3  4 5  x  1 5  3 7 1211132
5 4 6 12 8
6+6–5–1+4=x 12 7  84
x = 10 12 5  60
24. (a); 18.232  9.742  325.17  79.55  x  12 3  36
154.75 + 575.8 5.91
12 2  24
182 102  325 80 / x 155 576/ 6
324 – 100 + (405/x) = 155 + 96
33. (b); 1112  111
405/ x155 96 324 100 11 22  2 13
405/ x 27 13 32  3 19
x = 405/27 = 15
25. (b); 647.52  8.99  2 / 13of 246 14% of 499 19 42  4  31
 x 2  219.6 31 52  5  51
648/ 9 2 / 13 247 14/ 100500 220  x 2
34. (c); 36 2  72
72 + 38 + 70 + 220 = x2
72 2.5 180
x 2  400 180 3  540
x  20 540 3.5 1890
26. (b); 840.98  2.99  ? 117.02  80.95 1890 4  7560
 9.034 172.97 35. (e); 20 2  2  42
841 3  ? 117 81 9 173 42 3 3 129
87 + ? = 117 + 243 – 173 129 4 4  520
520 5 5  2605
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36. (b);
452, 480, 545, 671, 888, 1232
28 65 126 217 344
33  1 43  1 53  1 63  1
73  1
The difference is,
33  1, 43 1, 53  1, 63  1, 73  1
37. (c); 64 6  384 If all corals are petals, then some petals are livers
which contradicts the given statement.
63 5  315 46. c; We may have the following possible
62 4  248 representation:
61 3 183
60 2 120
591 59
38. (a); 524 112  645
645 132  814
814 152 1039
1037 172 1328 If all swans are stairs, then some stairs are jacks
which contradicts the given statement.
1328 192 1689 (47-50)
39. (b); The given series is in the following pattern: Year Case 1
7  4  2  15 1979 K
15  4  3  27
27  4  4  43 1980 M
43  4  5  63 1981 X
63  4  6  87
87  4  7  115 1982 C
115 4  8  147 1983 V
40. (c); 2  9  9  27
1984 B
278  8  224
1985 T
224 7  7 1575
47. c;
1575 6  6  9456 48. e;
9456 5  5  47285 49. a;
50. d;
(41-43)
51. d;
Floor Person
6 Q
5 T
4 P
3 U
2 S
41. a;
42. b; 1 R
43. d; So, U lives immediately above S
44. a; 52. e;
C R E A T W I S H
@ 7 * $ # & 9 2 6
Thus, the code for 'ARCHITECT' will be
N was seated opposite to H. '$7@69#*@#'
45. c; We may have the following possible (53-57)
representation:

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67. b;
68. a;
53. b; 69. e;
54. d; 70. a;
55. e; 71. b;
56. c; 72. d;
57. b;
58. b; Number given is: 37982351459624
The required numbers are:
8(even) followed by 2(prime)
2(even) followed by 3(prime)
4(even) followed by 5(prime)
The total numbers are: 3.
(59-60)
P > A (10) > F > X > S(5) > J
J + A = 14
J = 14 - 10 = 4 < 5
X + S = 13
X = 13 - 5 = 8 (9 > 8 > 5) A is the grandson of G.
Hence, J + X = 12 73. b;
59. b; 74. b; C and D facing towards each other.
60. e; B is standing to the immediate right of both C and
(61-65) E.
It is given that,
pubg a video game is coded as 712 311 402
917....................(I)
pubg is from korea is coded as 203 381 712
481...................(II)
korea is near china is coded as 481 272 420
203...................(III)
corona originated in china is coded as 619 987 420
Number of persons facing away from the centre
107.........(IV)
We can find out codes for the common words in the are more than those facing towards the centre.
statements, A is standing to the immediate left of F.
From I and II, Final solution:
pubg = 712
From III and IV,
china = 420
From II and III,
is korea = 203 481
Now we can figure out codes for words which are not
common,
From I,
a video game = 311 917 402 B is standing 2 nd to the left of A.
From II, 75. e; Considering statement I:
from = 381 K was born in an odd year immediately before P.
From III, F was born in 1981. S was born before U but after
near = 272 G.
From IV, S was born in 1979.
corona originated in = 619 107 987 1975
china = 420.
Code for 'corona' can be either 619, 987 or 107. 1976
Only 619 is given in the options.
1977
61. d;
62. c; 1978
63. e;
64. d; near = 272; china = 420 and south = 123 1979 S
65. e; Code for 'video game' can be from '311 402 1980 U
917' and it is not defined.
66. b; The letters are RCEMI, 1981 F
So the meaningful word that can be formed using So statement I alone is not sufficient.
these letters is CRIME. Considering statement II:
The 4 th alphabet of the newly formed word is M. L was born immediately before S. P was born
(67-71) before G but after K. U was born after L.

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1975 Two persons sit between A and E. A and E faces

the north.
1976
1977
1978 L
1979 S
1980
From statements I and II:
1981
So statement II alone is not sufficient.
Combining both the statements we get:
1975 K Only F is left unplaced. Hence,
1976 P
1977 G
So, both the statements are not sufficient since it
1978 L cannot be determined who is sitting to the
immediate right of F.
1979 S
(77-80)
1980 U PERSON CAR FINISH ORDER
1981 F R FERRARI 1
So G was born in 1977.
T MAHINDRA 2
76. e; From statement I:
D sits second to the right of E. B sits immediate to P MARUTI 3
the right of D. A sit at one of the ends.
Two persons sit between A and E. A and E faces S PORSCHE 4
the north. Q BMW 5
V AUDI 6
U TATA 7
77. a;
78. a;
79. c;
80. e;
From statement II:
C sits third to the left of G and both faces the ****
north. E sits immediate to the left of G.

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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Who won the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG)
2021 title with 52 gold medals on their final day, 39
silver and 46 bronze medals, taking their overall
medal tally to 137 medals...?
(a) Haryana (b) Jharkhand (c) Odisha
(d) Punjab (e) Uttarakhand (c) Tone Tag (d) neoEYED
2. What is the estimated GDP growth rate of India for (e) TrustCheck
fiscal year FY 2022-23 as per Organization for 9. In which of the following category, the Indian
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) railway has awarded by the UIC International
report? Sustainable Railway Awards (ISRA) for feeding
(a) 6.2% (b) 6.9% (c) 7.2% Solar Energy directly to 25 KV AC Traction
(d) 7.9% (e) 10.1% System?
3. As per the UNCTAD‘s World Investment Report (a) Rebuilding Confidence in Railways
2022, who remained the top recipient of foreign (b) Best Use of Zero-Carbon Technology
direct investment (FDI), followed by China ($181 (c) Best Circular Economy Project
billion) and Hong Kong ($141 billion)...? (d) Best Green Corridor
(a) UK (b) China (c) Denmark (e) Best Diversity & Inclusion Initiative
(d) Norway (e) USA 10. What is the theme of World Food Safety Day 2022
4. Who is the first Indian and the founder and MD of which is observed annually on 7th June?
Maithri Aquatech, who has been recognized by (a) Safer food, better health
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) as a (b) Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow
Global Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) (c) Food safety, everyone's business
Pioneer for Water Stewardship..? (d) Healthy Food, Healthy You
(a) Vishal V. Sharma (e) Avoid Junk to keep your body healthy
(b) Vinay Mohan Kwatra. 11. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has barred which
(c) Ramkrishna Mukkavilli Co-operative bank from granting fresh loans and
(d) Srinivas Das accepting deposits for six months, due to its weak
(e) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw financial position?
5. Which of the following institutions has launched the (a) The Delhi State Co- Operative Bank
book ‗Business of Sports: The Winning Formula for (b) People's Co-operative Bank
Success‘? (c) The Kangra Co-Operative Bank
(a) Symbiosis School of Sports Sciences (d) Saraswat Co-Operative Bank
(b) Board of Control for Cricket in India (e) Shamrao Vithal Co-Operative Bank
(c) IIM 12. Which entity has partnered with Mastercard to
(d) International Institute of Sports Management launch ―Cardless ATM powered by Mastercard‖
(e) L. Latvian Academy of Sport Education that enable contact-free ATM cash withdrawals in
6. According to the recent projection of the World India?
Bank, what would be India's gross domestic product (a) Cashfree payment gateway
(GDP) forecast for the current fiscal year (2022- (b) Empays Payment Systems
23)? (c) PayPal Payment Gateway
(a) 7.5% (b) 8.5% (c) 9.1% (d) CCAvenue Payment Gateway
(d) 6.5% (e) 7.3% (e) PayU Payment Gateway
7. Which of the following financial services company 13. Which Indian entity has entered into a partnership
will power the "Apple Pay Later" service that would with First Alliance Bank (Z) Ltd in Zambia to
be launched by Apple, to offer the users to split the provide mobile point of sale (mPOS) solution to
cost of a purchase? small and medium enterprises and other businesses?
(a) Visa (b) Mastercard (a) ePaisa
(c) American Express (d) Capitalone (b) POSist
(e) PayPal (c) Busy Accounting Software
8. Which of the following team has won the RBI's first (d) Torqus POS
global hackathon – ―HARBINGER 2021 – (e) LOGIC POS
Innovation for Transformation‖ in the problem 14. PhonePe along with which insurance company has
statement of Innovative, easy-to- use, non- mobile launched ‗first of its kind‘ travel insurance,
digital payment solutions for converting small-ticket domestic trip insurance?
cash transactions to digital mode? (a) Bajaj Allianz (b) ICICI Lombard
(a) Exto Tag (b) naplDCybersecPvt. (c) HDFC ERGO (d) Bharti Axa
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15. Which of the following banks has introduced a first- (d) Singapore
of-its-kind facility for customers to open current (e) none
accounts (CA) through its ‗Corporate‘ mobile app? 27. What is the tagline of Oriental Bank of Commerce?
(a) ICICI Bank (b) HDFC Bank (a) Where service is a way of life
(c) IndusInd Bank (d) Yes Bank (b) A Name you can Bank Upon
(e) Axis Bank (c) With you All the Way
16. Which Indian bank partnered with Mastercard India (d) Where every individual is committed
& Worldline India to launch a digital point-of-sale (e) none
(POS) solution ‗Soft POS‘, the 1st financial 28. The Bandipur Tiger Reserve And National Park is
payments service in India to transform everyday located in which of these states?
smartphones into merchant POS terminals? (a) Assam (b) Gujarat
(a) ICICI Bank (b) HDFC Bank (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Karnataka
(c) IndusInd Bank (d) Yes Bank (e) none
(e) Axis Bank 29. Murshidabad is located along the banks of which
17. Which of the following banks has partnered with river?
Transport Corporation of India Limited (TCIL) to (a) Damodar (b) Hooghly (c) Mahananda
facilitate real time payments for truck drivers? (d) Teesta (e) none
(a) Deutsche Bank (b) Bandhan Bank 30. The headquarter of the International Fund for
(c) DBS Bank (d) Karnataka Bank Agricultural Development (IFAD) is located at
(e) Dhanlaxmi Bank _____?
18. As per the world bank report, by what per cent the (a) London, United Kingdom
Indian economy is expected to contract in FY 2020- (b) Moscow, Russia
21 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? (c) Paris, France
(a) 3.2 per cent (b) 3.5 per cent (d) Rome, Italy
(c) 4.1 per cent (d) 4.6 per cent (e) none
(e) 5.0 per cent 31. Who is the chairperson of Financial Stability and
19. What is worker population ratio as per the ‗Annual Development Council (FSDC)?
Report of Periodic Labour Force Survey launched (a) Governor of RBI
by National Statistical Office (NSO)? (b) Deputy Governor of RBI
(a) 34.7% (b) 35.3% (c) 5.8%\ (c) Finance Minister of India
(d) 37.5% (e) 43.5% (d) Finance Secretary of India
20. The expert panel constituted by the Securities and (e) none
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) under Ishaat 32. The website ―Pension Sanchay‖ is onwed by?
Hussain has recommended to allow ________ to (a) RBI (b) Ministry of Finance
directly list on Social Stock Exchanges (SSE). (c) PFRDA (d) IRDAI
(a) Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) (e) none
(b) Non-profit Organizations 33. Udyami Mitra Portal is manged by?
(c) Non-Governmental Organisation (a) RBI (b) SIDBI (c) SEBI
(d) Co-operative Societies (d) NABARD (e) none
(e) None of these 34. UPI was launched by NPCI in which year?
21. Bogota is the capital of which country? (a) 2017 (b) 2016 (c) 2018
(a) Ireland (b) Estonia (c) Colombia (d) 2015 (e) none
(d) Lithuania (e) none 35. Which entity operates large-value payment system
22. The Mangalagiri International Cricket Stadium is in in India?
which state? (a) NPCI (b) RBI (c) SIDBI
(a) Uttarakhand (b) Himachal Pradesh (d) SEBI (e) none
(c) Karnataka (d) Andhra Pradesh 36. ___________ was put in place to facilitate
(e) none Electronic Bill Factoring Exchanges, which could
23. The Salal Hydroelectric Power Station is in which electronically accept and auction MSME bills so
place? that MSMEs could realize their of receivables
(a) Bihar (b) Jammu and Kashmir without delay.
(c) Sikkim (d) Haryana (a) TReDS (b) SIDBI (c) UIDAI
(e) none (d) NCFE (e) none
24. Who is the present CEO of Amul dairy? 37. Which state government has announced forming a
(a) R. S. Sodhi (b) A.K. Jain 5-member drafting committee to implement the
(c) Anand Patel (d) S. H. Goel much-debated UCC?
(e) none (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Uttarakhand
25. Mormugao Port is based in which of the following (c) Gujarat (d) Uttar Pradesh
states? (e) none
(a) Maharashtra (b) Gujarat 38. Which nation has proposed to impose a ban on
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Goa handgun sales after the Texas school shooting?
(e) none (a) China (b) Pakistan (c) Japan
26. United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) has its (d) Canada (e) none
headquarter located at _______? 39. India has won 33 medals in total in ISSF Junior
(a) Geneva, Switzerland World Cup 2022, held at which state?
(b) Montreal, Canada (a) Lausanne, Switzerland
(c) New York, United States (b) Suhl, Germany

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(c) Montreal, Canada (b)Only I and III follows

(d) Bonn, Germany (c) Only III follows
(e) none (d) All the conclusions follow
40. Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal for the (e) Only I and II follows
creation of a new Defence Estates Circle exclusively 45. Many people in the West now see arranged
for which Himalayan state? marriages as clashing far too much with more
(a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand modern ideas of marriage where people often enter
(c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Assam into matrimony independently of their families.
(e) none There is simply no feasible way of enforcing laws
against arranged marriages, particularly as it is
REASONING ABILITY almost guaranteed that many communities will
41. Point B is 20 m south of Point A. Point B is 10m continue to practice them regardless. It will be
west of point C. Point B is exactly midway between impossible to tell whether a marriage has been
point C and point D. Point B is 20m north of point started by arrangement if the community and the
E. Point F is 6m west of point B. Point G is exactly couple are unwilling to go to the police and most
midway between Point A and point B. will be unwilling to report their own families when
If Gita walks 10m towards north from point C, takes practicing a cultural tradition. Those who are deeply
a left turn and walks for 16m, and finally takes dissatisfied and beaten may do so but in this
another left turn and walks for 16m.What is the instance the law already allows divorce and abuse is
position of Gita with respect to point E. punishable by the full force of the law.
(a) North –East (b) South –East Which of the following statements most effectively
(c) North –West (d) South strengthens the conclusion of the argument?
(e) West (a) Since it has been established that arranged
Directions (Q.42-44) : In the question given below, marriages in themselves cause few provable
three statements are given followed by conclusions: I, harms, the resources of any police force would
II and III. You have to take the given statements to be arguably be wasted on enforcing such a law;
true even if they seem to be at variance from investigations would be very intrusive and
commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and labour intensive.
decide which of the given conclusions logically follows (b) Banning arranged marriages outright would
from the given statements disregarding commonly therefore not only be intolerant, but potentially
known facts. dangerous.
42. Statements: (c) A tangible harm could arise from the police
Only a few sounds are noise. being made to direct their energies towards
Only a few decibels are pitches. such minor misdemeanors, in that there could
Some pitches are sounds. be fewer resources available for more serious
Conclusions: crimes.
I. Some noises are pitches. (d) Bringing into practice such a law would
II. At least some decibels are sounds. arguably help send a message that certain
III. All pitches can never be sounds. practices do not sync with the sorts of societies
(a) None of the conclusions follow European countries try to forge.
(b) Only II follows (e) Although the law is likely to be hard to police
(c) Only II and III follows initially, in time it could allow for greater
(d) Only I and II follows respect for values about the rights of
(e) Only I follows individuals to be adopted by diaspora
43. Statements: communities in Europe.
Only a few powders are liquids. 46. In the question given below, a passage is given,
No liquid is a gel. followed by five statements. Select the answer
Some gels are powders. choice that provides the correct combination of
Conclusions: statements that contradicts the given passage.
I. All gels being powders is a possibility. Quite simply if a school in Japan is going to teach
II. All powders being liquids is a possibility. about World War II then it should include the darker
III. All powders being gels is a possibility. side of the Japanese involvement in the conflict.
(a) Only II and III follow Japans acts such as the Nanjing bombing and the
(b) Only II follows occupation of Asian countries were horrific and
(c) Either I or III follows must not be glossed over. Not covering such actions
(d) Only I and II follow is quite simply misrepresenting the facts through
(e) Only I follows omission.
44. Statements: I. No one would consider teaching about Nazi
Only a few golds are silvers. Germany without mentioning the horrors it
Some silvers are papers. committed.
All copper are papers. II. Critical thinking must not be at the expense of
No copper are golds. objective history that imparts knowledge of
Conclusions: what actually happened.
I. All papers can never be silvers. III. A textbook of modern history should be written
II. All golds can never be papers. in a way that does not hurt national pride.
III. All papers can never be golds.
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IV. History lessons in school are not just about
providing children with some sanitised version
of national history.
V. There is no need to go into every case where a
country has done wrong throughout its history.
(a) I and II (b)II and III (c) III and IV
(d)III and V (e)II and V
47. In each of the questions given below, a situation is
given, followed by five statements that throw more
light on the context of the situation. You have to
take the given statements to be true even if they
seem to be at variance from commonly known facts.
Carefully analyze the situation and choose the
option that depicts the correct relationship between
the statements and the situation.
Both classic books and contemporary novels have
been banned in schools due to profanity, plotlines
centred around negative activity, salacious content.
Most of the books remain blacklisted, despite
pushback from students and faculty of many
schools.
I. According to a survey, 64% children tend to
see the world in a way that a book describes to
them, which at times may be far from reality.
II. Teenagers focus only on the negative things
depicted in a book.
III. Many books, though found in district and
school libraries, require students to have
permission from a parent to check them out.
IV. There have been instances where children
involve in vile activities after reading fictional
things from books.
V. Banning children from reading books might
deprive them in developing their language
skills, creativity and concentration.
VI. Some authors argue that the factors due to
which a book is banned are considered trivial
by children like most adults.
(a) I and II strengthen and V weakens the
argument given in the passage
(b) I and IV strengthen the argument given in the
passage
(c) III is a conclusion and IV and V are effects of
the given situation
(d) V proposes challenge to the given situation and
VI is an assumption based on it
(e) III is an effect and IV is a cause for the given
situation
48. For the questions given below, a paragraph is given,
followed by four statements. Select the answer
choice that represents the correct combination of
statements that cannot be inferred from the passage.
The vast popularity of MOOCs can be explained by
the fact that people are finding it easier to learn this
way. The best feature of online learning that it can
be done in the privacy of one's home, which is
easier than having to move cities or even countries
for a university degree. Moreover, online courses
are inherently more flexible. Lectures can be
watched and tests taken at any time a person desires
(within the deadlines), unlike with scheduled
lectures and tests at the traditional university. Not
only this means a more personal approach to
studying, but also provides people with more
flexibility to manage their other commitments, such
as work and childcare.
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I. Online courses are more convenient for
students than traditional universities.
II. Online courses have equal credibility to
traditional university degrees.
III. Online courses overcome the cons of
traditional university education.
IV. More people prefer doing online courses rather
than traditional university ones.
(a) I and II (b) II and III (c) II and IV
(d) III and IV (e) I, II and IV
Directions (Q.49-51) : Study the following
information carefully and answer the questions given
below:
Certain number of people were seated in a linear row
facing north. Information about only some of them is
known. Further it is known that number of people seated
to the left of A was four times the number of people
seated to the right of A. Six people were seated between
B and C where B was seated to the left of C. E was
seated at one of the ends. There were not more than 12
people seated in the row. D was second to the left of F
and towards the right of B. No three people whose
information is known were seated together. Neither B nor
C was seated at any end. B was not adjacent to D.
49. How many people in total were seated in the row?
(a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 11
(d) 12 (e) Cannot be determined
50. How many people were seated between D and A?
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 6
(d) 7 (e) 4
51. How many people were seated to the left of F?
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5
(d) 4 (e) 8
52. From an ecommerce perspective, the aim of Web
3.0 is to capitalize on the expansive social web
network. Through new and enhanced methods of
interpreting the internet user's habits, it is possible to
learn more of the specific interests of the shopper
(inside and outside of their current behavior), and
bring to them a very personalized ecommerce
shopping experience. Unlike today's targeted
advertising which may, for example, detect that a
user performed an internet search for wedding
dresses, which in turn results in advertisement after
advertisement of non-specific wedding dresses. In a
Web 3.0 scenario targeted advertisements may
result in non-traditional wedding dresses for plus
size, middle aged women, better fitting the profile of
an individual and making these advertisements far
more useful and likely for a sales conversion.
Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from
the passage given above?
(a) The transition from the older version to the
semantic web (web 3.0) will open doors to new
techniques of advertising.
(b) Web 3.0 encourages one-to-one instead of the
one-to-many marketing technique.
(c) With the Web 3.0 trust and privacy reach a
greater role, enabling the identity management
in order to ensure the authenticity and the user
education promoting good practices of Internet
use, may be growing business areas.
(d) In a Web 3.0 scenario, ecommerce companies
can customize in more detail their products and
services targeting their customers' individual
online experience.
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(e) Web 3.0 supersedes the older versions in terms (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3
of effectiveness of advertising. (d) 4 (e) 5
Directions (Q.53-55) : In the following question Directions (Q.61-62) : Study the following
assuming the given statements to be true, find which information carefully and answer the questions given
of the conclusions among given three conclusions is below:
/are definitely true and then give your answers Seven boxes which were labelled with different alphabets
accordingly. viz. A, B, C, D, E, F and G weighed differently on a
53. Statements: P ≥ Q; R = S; R < T; T < U; Q ≥ S balance scale. The weights were integral values in kg.
Conclusions: I. P > T II. Q = U III. P > R • A weighed more than G but less than F
(a) Only I is true (b) Only I and II is true • Number of boxes which weighed more than D was
(c) Only II and III is true (d) Only III is true thrice as that of the number of boxes which weighed
(e) None is true less than E
54. Statements: A > B; C > D; C = E; F > E; B = G; B ≥ • E was not the lightest
D • G weighed more than C
Conclusions: I. D ≤ G II. A ≥ C III. F > D • The 2nd heaviest box weighed 65kg
(a) Either I or III is true • F was not the heaviest box
(b) Only I is true • D weighed 61kg.
(c) Only III is true 61. How many boxes weighed more than box B?
(d)Only I and III are true (a) None (b) One (c) Two
(e) None is true (d) Three (e) Cannot be determined
55. Statements: G > T ≥ V > C; V > A ≤ F < H 62. Which of the following can be the weight of box A?
Conclusions: I. C < H II. G > F III. T > A (a) 60kg (b) 55kg (c) 69kg
(a) Only I is true (b) Only II is true (d) 63kg (e) None of the above
(c) Only III is true (d) Both I and III are true Directions (Q.63-67) : Study the following information
(e) Both II and III are true carefully and answer the questions given below:
Directions (Q.56-60) : Study the following Six people in a city were ranked at different designations
information carefully and answer the questions given and were graduated from different universities. The
below: designation of these people in decreasing order is
A word and number arrangement machine when given an Chairman, Dean, Professor, Asst. Professor, Lab tech.
input line of words and numbers rearranges them and student. Three people were ranked between A and
following a particular rule in each step. The following is the person graduated from NIT where A was ranked
an illustration of input and rearrangement. higher than Latter. B is not the assistant professor or
Input: 34 31 each 51 30 43 52 page view 37 article 18 dean. The asst. professor was graduated from KIT. Only
Step 1: 18 34 31 each 51 30 43 52 page view 37 article one person was ranked between C and D where D was
Step 2: 18 51 34 31 each 30 43 52 page view 37 article ranked lower than C and graduated from JIT. The person
Step 3: 18 51 view 34 31 each 30 43 52 page 37 article graduated from IIT was ranked higher than the person
Step 4: 18 51 view 30 34 31 each 43 52 page 37 article graduated from DIT but lower than the person graduated
Step 5: 18 51 view 30 43 34 31 each 52 page 37 article from MIT. E was ranked higher than F but lower than B.
Step 6: 18 51 view 30 43 page 34 31 each 52 37 article 63. What is the designation of B?
Step 7: 18 51 view 30 43 page 34 37 31 each 52 article (a) Professor (b) Lab tech (c) Chairman
Step 8: 18 51 view 30 43 page 34 37 each 31 52 article (d) Dean (e) Cannot be determined
Step 9: 18 51 view 30 43 page 34 37 each 52 31 article 64. Who graduated from IIT?
Step 9 is the last step of the above input, as the desired (a) B (b) A (c) F
arrangement is obtained. (d) D (e) C
As per the rule followed in the above steps, find out in 65. How many people were ranked higher than the
each of the following questions the appropriate step for person graduated from DIT?
the given input. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3
Input: 41 69 solution 13 serious 66 58 76 72 sector (d) 4 (e) 5
sorrow 53 66. From which college lab tech. graduated?
56. In which of the following step, four numbers appear (a) NIT (b) JIT (c) DIT
simultaneously (there is no word between them)? (d) IIT (e) None of these
(a) Step 4 (b) Step 5 (c) Step 6 67. Who was ranked immediately higher than E?
(d) Step 7 (e) There is no such step (a) C
57. What is the position of 'sector' in the last step (b) The person graduated from DIT
counting from right end? (c) The professor
(a) 3rd (b) 5th (c) 4th (d) All are correct
(d) 7th (e) 1st (e) None is correct
58. How many words are there between 'solution' and 68. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word
'76' in the step 5? WATERBOTTLE each of which has as many letters
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 between them in the word as in the English?
(d) 4 (e) 5 (a) 4 (b) 0 (c) 3
59. In which of the step '53 solution 41' are in that (d) 1 (e) 2
order? Directions (Q.69-73) : Study the following
(a) Step 3 and Step 4 (b) Step 6 information carefully and answer the questions given
(c) Step 7 (d) Step 2 below:
(e) Step 8 From Monday to Friday, everyday technical check is
60. How many numbers are to the right of '13' in step 6? done in different wings 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (not necessarily in

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the same order) of an office. Only one wing is checked
per day. Either one or two technicians do the job. No
technician works more than one day. Also, the employees
of each wing has an off on different days of the week. No
wing has off on Tuesday and Thursday. Wing 3 has off
on the same day as their technical check. The wing
whose technical check is done on Monday has off on
Friday. A and K does the checks together but not on
Wednesday. There are two days in between the checks by
P and D. Z checks on the immediate day before T. R
checks on Thursdays. B checks wing 1 but not on Friday.
Wing 4 has off on Sundays. Wing 5 has off on the day of
the technical check of wing 4. Wing 2 has off on the
immediate day after wing 5. P checks before D (in a
week). K checks before D but not immediately. T does
not check on Fridays. B does not work with P or on
Wednesday.
69. Which wing has technical check on Tuesdays?
(a) Wing 1 (b) Wing 2 (c) Wing 3
(d) Wing 4 (e) Wing 5
70. Which wing has off on the immediate day after T
does technical checks?
(a) Wing 1 (b) Wing 2 (c) Wing 3
(d)Wing 5 (e) None of the above
71. Who works on the immediate day after B?
(a) D (b) R (c) T
(d) Z (e) A
72. Which of the following persons works alone?
(a) B (b) P (c) Z
(d) T (e) R
73. On which day does the wing whose technical check
is done on a Friday has its off?
(a) Wednesday (b) Monday
(c) Saturday (d) Friday
(e) Sunday
74. In each question below a passage is followed by
two statements given as 1 and 2. These statements
could be the possible course of action for the
passage. Read both the statements and decide which
of the following answer choice correctly depicts
which course of action follows.
The bitcoin has shown the potential to challenge the
sovereignty of Dollar and ultimately the US's
control over the international trade and politics. By
the means of trade control, US is manipulating the
politics in its favour.
But this currency is not yet market tested and has
many loopholes. Currently, the liquidity of this
currency is hard to control, and it is impossible to
monitor the transactions, which paves the way for
currency manipulations and black-market
transactions (such as buying the illicit drugs).
Which of the following is/are to be the course(s) of
action?
1. In the future, countries should cautiously and
step-by-step enter into the bitcoin market.
2. Countries should ban the use of Bitcoin
temporarily.
(a) Only 1 is the course of action
(b) Only 2 is the course of action
(c) Both 1 and 2 are the courses of action
(d) Either 1 or 2 is the course of action
(e) Neither 1 nor 2 is the course of action
75. The team of The Indian Express travelled to nine
polling booths across three districts and five
assembly seats during the election and encountered
long queues of voters in all booths. Clearly, women
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have voted enthusiastically in these elections.
Which of the following can be assumed/ inferred
from the given statement? (An assumption is
something that is not directly stated but is supposed
or taken for granted and inference is something
which is not directly stated but can be derived from
the given facts)
(a) Women are more likely to stand in a queue
than men
(b) Women are more motivated to vote than men
(c) Women were predominantly seen standing in
the queues to vote in all the booths
(d) Women are more responsible citizens as
compared to men
(e) The elections were organized in areas where
the population of women is more than that of
men
Directions (Q.76-79) : Study the following
information carefully and answer the questions given
below:
Six people - J, K, L, M, N and O are sitting in a
hexagonal table at each of the corners such that all of
them are facing inside. Each of them likes different
TNPL teams - TP, RT, KK, CSG, DD and LKK. All the
above information is not necessarily in the same order.
One person sits between J and the one who likes CSG. N
sits diagonally opposite to the one who likes CSG. O sits
diagonally opposite to the one who likes TP. Neither L
nor N likes TP. K sits second to the right of the one who
likes TP. J does not like TP. The number of persons sit
between N and the one who likes DD is same as between
(when counted from the left of the one who likes DD) is
same as between L and the one who likes LKK (when
counted from the right of L). One person sits between M
and the one who likes RT. K either likes CSG or DD.
Neither O nor L likes KK.
76. O likes _____
(a) DD (b) CSG (c) TP
(d) LKK (e) RT
77. How many persons sit between K and the one who
likes DD when counted from the right of DD?
(a) None (b) One (c) Two
(d) Three (e) More than three
78. Who are the immediate neighbors of the one who
likes KK?
(a) J and the one who likes DD
(b) O and the one who likes TP
(c) K and M
(d) M and the one who likes LKK
(e) J and the one who likes TP
79. Which of the following combination(s) is/are true?
(a) Two persons sit between N and the one who
likes CSG
(b) One persons sits between J and the one who
likes DD
(c) K sits second to the left of the one who likes
RT
(d) Both (a) and (c)
(e) Both (a) and (b)
80. Veer: A college degree is a must if one wishes to
secure a well-paying job in the future.
Sasha: That's not true. A college also improves one's
decision making, besides helping one to secure a
job.
It can be inferred that Sasha has misinterpreted
Veer's statement to mean:
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(a) Only a college degree can guarantee a well-
paying job.
(b) Securing a good job is the only purpose of
going to college.
(c) Those who go to college are more successful
than those who don't.
(d) Those who do not go to college make poor
decisions.
(e) None of the above.
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
Direction (81 – 85) : Study the following data
carefully and answer the questions:
Three are 5 boats A, B, C, D and E and all the boats are
rowing in river ‗P‘ . Speed of each boat in still water is
different.
Pie chart given below shows the degree distribution of
difference between downstream and upstream distance
(in metre) covered by a boat in same time and sum of pie
chart is 320 m.
Bar graph given below shows the sum of downstream
and upstream distances (in meter) covered by 5 given
boats.
Some other information is also known:
The speed of a man in still water is 50% more than that
of stream of river ‗P‘ and he covers 80 m downstream
distance in certain time. If man rows with 2/3 of its usual
speed, he will take 2 seconds more to cover the same
distance in downstream direction.
81. In river ‗P‘ , time taken by a man to cover a certain
upstream distance by boat A is 10 seconds more
than the time taken by him to come back to starting
point by boat D. Find the total time taken by the
man during his whole journey.
(a) 80 seconds (b) 60 seconds
(c) 50 seconds (d) 70 seconds
(e) 40 seconds
82. Boat C has to cover 1.2 km in upstream direction in
river ‗P‘ . When it covers 40% of the journey with
its original speed, its speed in still water is
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decreased by ‗x% and it covers the whole journey
in 1.5 minutes. Find the value of ‗x‘.
(a) 16 (b) 10 (c) 15
(d) 12 (e) 20
83. When the speed of stream of river ‗P‘ is decreased,
time taken by boat D to cover 135 m in downstream
direction is 4 seconds more than that taken by boat
B to cover same distance in downstream direction.
Find that by what percent the speed of stream of
river ‗P‘ was decreased?
(a) 25% (b) 16% (c) 15%
(d) 20% (e) 30%
84. In river ‗Q‘ , a man covers 300 m downstream. If
ratio of time taken by the man to cover 60% journey
by boat A to the time taken by him to cover
remaining journey by boat E is 5 : 2, then find the
ratio of the speed of stream of river ‗Q‘ to that of
river ‗P‘
(a) 3 : 4 (b) 1 : 2 (c) 1 : 4
(d) 1 : 1 (e) 1 : 3
85. From the above question, while coming back in
river ‗Q‘ , if the man covers 60% distance by boat C
and remaining distance by boat D, then total time
taken by the man while coming back is how much
more than that taken by him while going 300 m
downstream?
(a) 20 seconds (b) 24 seconds (c) 22 seconds
(d) 16 seconds (e) 18 seconds
Directions (Q.86-90) : Study the information and
answer the following question.
There are five class [A, B, C, D and E] . Each class has
different number of student. In each class different
number student passed math and science exam. Number
of student in class A is 120. Number of student in E is
average number of student of class B and C. Total
number of student in class D is 130. Total number of
student in class D, E and C is 320. In class A, 20 students
is fail in both subject and 20 student passed both subject.
40 student passed only math exam. In class B, number of
student passed only in science is same as class A. 50
Students passed only math exam. Equal number of
student passed both subject and failed both subject. In
class C 50 students passed math exam. 30 students pass
only in Science . Equal number of student passed both
subject and failed both subject i.e 10. In class D , number
student failed both subject is same as number of student
failed both subject in class A. Ratio of student passed
only math and only science is 6 : 5. 10 student passed
both exam in D. In class E, ratio of student passed only
Math and only Science is 9 : 7. 10 student passed both
subject and 10 student failed both subject.
86. Find total number of student passed in both subject
in all the class together and total number of student
failed in both subject together?
(a) 120 (b) 147 (c) 154
(d) 121 (e) 130
87. Total number of student passed only in math in all
the class together is what percent of total number
student passed only in science?
(a) 159 (b) 120 (c) 129
(d) 132 (e) 147
88. Find the ratio of the total number of student passed
only math in class A, B and C and total number of
student passed only science in class C, D and E?
(a) 17 : 13 (b) 19 : 17 (c) 21 : 23
(d) 26 : 23 (e) 29 : 27
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89. Quantity I : Total number of student passed the company whose age is 50 years, then the
[either one or both subject] in C is what percent of average age of the company is decreased by 4 years.
total student in C? If the ratio of the initial number of employees to
Quantity II : Total number of student passed manager is 3 : 1, then find the initial number of
[either one or both subject] in D is what percent of managers in the company?
total number of student in D? (a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 2
(a) Quantity I > Quantity II (d) 4 (e) None of these
(b) Quantity I  Quantity II 97. The total population of the village is 12000. The
(c) Quantity I < Quantity II number of female population in the village is 40%
(d) Quantity II  Quantity I less than the number of male population in the
(e) Quantity I = Quantity II village. If the number of literate population is 40%
90. Total number of student passed [either one or both more than the number of illiterate population and
subject] in all the class together is what percent of the number of male illiterate population is 50%
total number of student in all the class? more than the number of male literate population,
(a) 89 (b) 59 (c) 96 then the number of female illiterate population is
(d) 36 (e) 50 approximately what percent of the number of male
Directions (Q.91-95) : Following question contains illiterate population?
two equations as I and II. You have to solve both (a) 11.11% (b) 12.12% (c) 13.13%
equations and determine the relationship between (d) 14.14% (e) 15.15%
them and give answer as, 98. Vessel A contains the mixture of water and oil and
the quantity of oil in vessel A is 50% more than the
91. (I) x 2  28x  192  0 quantity of water. Vessel B contains 85 liters
(II) 7 xy  2016 0 mixture of water and oil and the quantity of oil is 83
(1/3)% more than the quantity of water. Vessel C
(a) x > y
contains 72 liters mixture of oil and water and the
(b) x  y quantity of oil is 25% more than the quantity of
(c) x = y or relationship cannot be determined water. If the initial quantity of vessel A is 45 liters
(d) x < y less than the quantity of vessel B and the mixture of
(e) x  y all the vessels are mixed together, than what is the
92. (I) 6 x 2  5x  300 0 ratio of the oil and water in the final solution?
(a) 111 : 73 (b) 115 : 77 (c) 117 : 79
(II) 5 y  66y  160 0
2
(d) 119 : 78 (e) None of these
(a) x > y 99. Train A crosses a platform in 20 seconds. If train B
(b) x  y
crosses train A running in opposite direction in 7.2
seconds and the ratio of the speed of train A to train
(c) x = y or relationship cannot be determined
B is 3 : 2. If train B crosses a pole in 6 seconds and
(d) x < y
also crosses a man running in same direction at the
(e) x  y
speed of 20 kmph in 9 seconds, then what is the
93. (I) 3x 2  5x  22  0 length of the platform?
(a) 300 m (b) 200 m (c) 100 m
(II) y  17x  52 0
2
(d) 400 m (e) None of these
(a) x > y 100. A bag contains (x + 4) green, 6 red and 9 yellow
(b) x  y colour balls. If two balls are taken randomly and the
(c) x = y or relationship cannot be determined probability of getting both are yellow colour balls is
(d) x < y 3/25 , then find the difference between the number
(e) x  y of green colour balls and red colour balls?
(a) 3 balls (b) 4 balls (c) 1 ball
94. (I) 2 x  5 y  3 (d) 2 balls (e) None of these
(II) 3x  4 y  31/ 10 101. What is the marked price of an article?
(a) x > y I. The selling price of the article is Rs 120
(b) x  y
II. Selling price after offering 5% discount on the
(c) x = y or relationship cannot be determined marked price is Rs 132
(d) x < y III. Marked price of the article is 40% above the
cost price
(e) x  y
(a) only I (b) both I and II
95. (I) 12x 2  77x  85  0 (c) All I, II and III (d) Only III
(e) Only II
(II) 3 y  44y  140  0
2
102. Find the simple interest on the sum after 4 years at
(a) x > y the rate of 16% per annum.
(b) x  y I. The sum amounted to Rs 16147 after two years
(c) x = y or relationship cannot be determined at compound interest.
(d) x < y II. The sum amounted to Rs 21728 after four years
(e) x  y at compound interest
96. A company has certain number of employees and III. The sum amounted To Rs 12720 after 5 years
managers. If one new employee joined the company at simple interest rate of 12% per annum
whose age is 48 years, then the average age of the (a) Only I (b) Both I and II
company is increased by 2 years. If one manager left (c) All I, II and III (d) Only III

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(e) Only II in college P is 4180 then find total number of

103. Find the value of Z? students in college S?
I. 2 XY  2 XZ  7Z  2Z  5Y  1 (a) 3670 (b) 3630 (c) 3640
(d) 3730 (e) Can‘t be determined
II. X  196  81, Y  289  225 107. If ratio of number of students in BT1 in college R
III. 2 X  2Z  3Z | 4 XY  5 XZ  0 and number of students in BT2 of college Q is 1 : 1
(a) only I (b) Both I and II and total number of students in information
(c) all I, II and III (d) Only III technology branch of college Q is 2700, then find
(e) Only II the number of students in BT1 of college Q ?
104. What is the sum of the age of A and B? (a) 50 (b) 65 (c) 95
I. The age of A is 6 years more than the age of B. (d) 75 (e) can‘t be determined
II. 40% of the age of B is equal to 30% of the age 108. If total students in college P is 4180 , number of
of A students in BT3 of college P is 50% of students in
III. The ratio between half of the age of A and one BT1. Then find total number of students in BT2 of
third of the age of B is 2 : 1 college P?
(a) Either I and II or I and III (a) 360 (b) 320 (c) 400
(b) Both I and II (d) 300 (e) Can‘t be determined
(c) All I, II , III 109. If number of students in Information technology of
(d) Only III college S is 2100, then find number of students in
(e) Only II information technology branch of college Q is
105. Find the length of mail train? how much % of mechanical branch of college P?
I. Mail train cross a express train in 148 sec when (a) 300% (b) 400% (c) 250%
both are moving in same direction. (d) 320% (e) can‘t be determined
II. Mail train passes a 480 long bridge in 60 sec 110. Find the respective ratio of number of students in
and express train passes a tree in 16 sec. mechanical branch of college T and number of
(a) only I (b) Both I and II students in Information technology branch of
(c) None (d) either I or II college R?
(e) Only II (a) 3 : 1 (b) 1 : 3 (c) 2 : 3
Directions (Q.106-110) : Read the following (d) 3 : 2 (e) Can‘t be determined
information carefully and answer the questions based Directions (Q.111-115) : Study the graphs and
on it. answer the following questions.
There are five Engineering colleges P, Q, R, S and T and There are five schemes. Different type scheme give
there are three branches in each college Biotechnology, different type simple and compound interest per annum
Information technology and Mechanical Engineering. Scheme SI CI
There are three section in each college in Biotechnology E 12% 15%
BT1, BT2, and BT3 and one section each of rest of the J 14% 10%
branches . Total number of students in college R is 495 O 18% 12%
more than total students in college Q. The number of T 16% 20%
students in Information Technology branch of college R Y 15% 14%
is 400% of number of students in Mechanical branch of 111. A invest Rs 12000 in scheme E for 2 year
same college. The number of students in section BT1 of compound interest and same amount invest in
college R is 20% more than BT2 of same college. scheme Y for 3 years compound interest. Average
Number of students in BT3 of college R is 10% more interest get from these is what percent of the interest
than number of students in BT2 of same college. Total when Rs 16000 invest in scheme O for three years
number of students in college R is 4410. Total number of SI ?
students in Mechanical engineering of college P is 900 (a) 14 (b) 56 (c) 69
which is 1500 less than Information technology of same (d) 58 (e) 78
college. Number of students in Mechanical branch of 112. Quantity I : What is average interest gets by A
college T is 50% of number of students in Information when he invest 10000 in each scheme J, O and T for
technology of same college. Total number of student in 2 years in CI?
section BT2 of all colleges together is 1100 and number Quantity II : what is average interest gets by A
of students in section BT3 of all colleges together is 30 when he invest 15000 in each scheme E, O and Y
less than BT2. Total number of students in college T is for 2 years in Ci?
3570. There are 70 students in BT1 and 200 students in (a) Quantity I > Quantity II
BT2 IN College T. Number of students in BT3 of college (b) Quantity I  Quantity II
P is 53.33% of number of students in BT3 of college T (c) Quantity I < Quantity II
which is same as that of number of students in college Q (d) Quantity II  Quantity I
in BT3. Number of students in BT3 of college S is 30% (e) Quantity I = Quantity II
of same of college T. Respective ratio of number of 113. Find the ratio of time when Rs 22000 invest Y
students in BT3 of college R and S is 22 : 9. Number of scheme and gets Rs 26289 as a compound interest
students in Mechanical branch of college S is 500 more and Rs 21000 invest in scheme O and gets 8503 as a
than same branch of college Q. The number of students compound interest?
in mechanical branch of all colleges together is 4350 and (a) 1 : 1 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 2 : 1
total number of students in information technology of all (d) 1 : 2 (e) 3 : 2
colleges together is 12,200. 114. Find the average interest gets by Ram when he
106. If the number of students in section BT1 of all invests Rs 6000 in all the schemes for 2 years SI?
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(a) 185 (b) 148 (c) 159
(d) 1800 (e) 147
115. Quantity I : Find the time when Rs 12000 invest in
scheme E and gets Rs 3870 as a CI?
Quantity II : Find the time when Rs 32000 invest
in scheme O and gets Rs 8141 as a CI?
(a) Quantity I > Quantity II
(b) Quantity I  Quantity II
(c) Quantity I < Quantity II
(d) Quantity II  Quantity I
(e) Quantity I = Quantity II
In each of the following questions, a question is
followed by three statements I, II and III. Read all the
statements to find the answer to given question and
then answer accordingly that such statement/s can
give the answer alone/ together.
116. Find the value of x?
Statement I : Time taken by boats travels x km
downstream in 3 hours and boat travels (x + 40) km
downstream in 4 hours.
Statement II : The boat travels (x + 30) km along
with stream and against stream in 11 hours.
Statement III : The boat travels x km upstream and
downstream in 9 hours and the ratio of the speed of
boat to stream is 3 : 1.
(a) Only I is sufficient
(b) Only II is sufficient
(c) Only I and II is sufficient
(d) All I, II and III is sufficient
(e) Only III is sufficient
In each of the following questions, a question is
followed by three statements I, II and III. Read all the
statements to find the answers to given question and
then answer accordingly that which statement/s can
give the answer alone/ together.
117. What is the present age of Shon?
Statement I : Ratio of the present ages of Surya,
Nitish and Shon is 3 : 4 : 2 and the present age of
Nitish 12 years more than Renu‘s age after 4 years.
Statement II : Averages ages of Renu and Nitish is
20 years and the difference between the ages of
Shon and Renu is 15 years.
Statement III : Sum of the ages of Shon and Nitish
is 44 years and the ratio of the present ages of Surya
and Nitish is 3 : 4 and Surya 2 years younger than
Shon.
(a) Only I is sufficient
(b) Only II is sufficient
(c) Only I and II is sufficient
(d) All I, II and III is sufficient
(e) Only III is sufficient
In each of the following questions, a question is
followed by three statements I, II and III. Read all the
statements to find the answer to given question and
then answer accordingly that which statement/s can
give the answer alone/ together.
118. Find the difference between compound interest on
that sum at 5% per annum after 2 years and simple
interest on that sum at 6% per annum after 3 years.
I. Difference between compound interest and
simple interest on that sum at 4% per annum
after two years is Rs 86.4
II. Simple interest on that sum at 8% per annum
after six years is Rs 25920
III. The sum amounts to Rs 60674.4 on compound
interest at 6% per annum after 2 years.
(a) All I, II and III
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(b) Any two of the three
(c) Only I and III
(d) Any one of the three
(e) Even I, II and III together are not sufficient.
In each of the following questions, a question is
followed by three statements I, II and III. Read all the
statements to find the answer to given question and
then answer accordingly that which statement/s can
give the answer along/ together.
119. Anita with double her efficiency and Kiran, both of
them can complete a piece of work 12 days. Find
the time taken by Anita and Simran to complete the
work.
I. Kiran , Madhav and Simran together can
complete the work in 8 days.
II. Madhav and Kiran together can complete the
work in 15 days.
IIII. Madhav and Simran together can complete the
work in 10 days
(a) Only II and III
(b) All I, II and III
(c) Only I and III
(d) Any one of the three
(e) Even I, II and III together are not sufficient.
Each question contains an absolute value followed by
Statement I, statement II and Statement III. Which of
the following statement should be same as the
absolute value given and choose the correct answer
accordingly?
120. Statement I : A and B started a business with the
investment of Rs 10000 and Rs 20000 respectively.
After 4 months, A invested Rs 4000 more and after
2 months, B withdraws Rs 8000. Find the share of
B, if the total profit at the end of the year is Rs
43000?
Statement II: P and Q started a business by
investing in the ratio of 2 : 3 . After 8 months , P
invested Rs 1000 more. Find the initial investment
of P , if the share of P and O is in the ratio of 73 :
108?
Statement III: Rahul invested one fourth of the
investment for one third of total period of Kavin
invested two fifth of the investment for one fourth
of the total period and Malar invested the remaining
amount for 4 months. Total profit at the end of the
year is Rs 72000. Find the share of Kavin?
(a) Both statement I and II
(b) Both statement I and III
(c) Only statement I
(d) All the three statements
(e) None of these
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Directions (Q.121-130) : Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words are given in bold to help you locate
them while answering some of the questions.
Privatisation of water is unwarranted, unjustified and
unnecessary. In pushing for it, we are not really
addressing the key issue plaguing the water sector, which
is a need for better governance. We need a democratic,
transparent, accountable and participatory governance in
a bottom-up approach, on each aspect of the urban water
sector where water privatisation is advocated. There are
lacunae in the urban water sector which are being used
as a justification for pushing water privatisation. Lacunae
include losses, inefficiency, unreliability, corruption,
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issues of quality, and mismanagement. All of these are
symptoms; the root cause is lack of democratic
governance.
If we look at the experiences anywhere in the world with
privatisation of water, nowhere has it over a long period
of time in a comprehensive manner, encompassing most
of, or even large parts of, the urban water sector. What
has been attempted is privatisation of some small sub-
sector, say, water distribution, keeping the rest of the
issues still in the public sector.
Water is not merely a commodity, and the urban water
sector is not just about supplying fresh potable water to
people in urban dwellings. The urban water sector also
involves multiple layers, including sourcing of water,
deciding which is the best among available options,
getting potable water through purification plants for
equitable distribution through huge infrastructure, and
managing the sewage generated through another set of
huge infrastructure. It involves not only creating
infrastructure at so many different levels and managing
such created infrastructure along with natural sources,
but also aims to achieve a sustainable and optimum
system. For example, how do we use rainwater in an
optimum way, in connection with lakes, ponds, tanks,
wetlands, forests like the ridge in Delhi, groundwater
aquifers, river and streams, and storm water drains? How
do we manage all this? How and where do we treat
sewage? What happens to treated sewage? How do we
manage the system?
Considering all aspects of the urban water sector
comprehensively is necessary to achieve better water
management and good governance. This becomes even
more important when the urban water footprint is
growing fas and when changing climate is also affecting
the way we deal with various aspects of the water sector.
In many places where most of the water sector remains in
the public domain even where some piecemeal water
privatisation has been implemented, re-municipalisation
is the trend. The private sector works on one bottom line:
profit maximisation. But the management of water
supply is an issue of rights and a basic need, as
acknowledged by the judiciary. Moreover, water is
embedded in the ecosystem. Any attempt to see water
only as a commodity is bound to have multiple
disruptive consequences.
When privatisation is mooted as a solution, it comes with
a promise that it will create competition and that the
consumer will benefit. A look at the power sector shows
that this promise has not been delivered. The power
sector is not only a monopoly but refuses to submit itself
to public audit. This is not to suggest that people should
not pay for the water they consume. Those who can must
be made to pay. The current government in Delhi has not
only provided free water to the lowest consumers, but has
also managed to expand the distribution network and
bring down losses. It is possible and necessary to
improve public water governance. That is the only way
forward.
121. What is the factor used to support the demand for
privatisation of the water sector?
(I) issues of quality
(II) unreliability and corruption
(III) inefficiency and limited supply
(a) Both (I) and (III) (b) Both (II) and (III)
(c) Both (I) and (II) (d) Only (II)
(e) All (I), (II) and (III)
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122. Which of the following is not covered under an
urban water sector?
(a) selecting the best available source of water
(b) managing the sewage generated through the
water infrastructure
(c) getting potable water through purification
plants
(d) collecting fees for equitable distribution of
water
(e) sourcing of water
123. What can be understood from the performance of
the power sector?
(a) its privatisation has not benefitted the
government exchequer
(b) its privatisation has led to a friction between
the government and the public
(c) its privatisation has neither encouraged
competition nor benefitted its consumers
(d) its privatisation has started a new trend of
exploitation in the name of regulations
(e) its privatisation has encouraged a higher level
of cooperation between public and private
sectors
124. As per the author, what is the real problem in the
water sector?
(I) the need for a detailed privatisation plan
(II) the need to encourage water harvesting
(III) the need for better governance
(a) Only (I) (b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III) (d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) None of (I), (II) and (III)
125. Why is the author against the idea of privatisation of
the water sector?
(a) as private sector focuses on only profit
maximisation
(b) as private sector in incompetent to handle the
water sector
(c) as private sector lacks the experience in
managing public utilities
(d) as public sector has sufficient funds to run non-
profit businesses
(e) All of these
126. Which of the following becomes even more
important with speedily growing urban water
footprint?
(a) considering all aspects of the urban water sector
(b) achieving better water management
(c) assuring equal distribution of water
(d) achieving good governance
(e) More than one of the above
127. Choose the word/group of words which is most
SIMILAR in meaning to the word/group of words
printed in bold as used in passage. Mooted
(a) Emancipated (b) Levitate
(c) Amended (d) Broached
(e) Cursed
128. Choose the word/group of words which is most
similar in meaning to the word/group of words
printed in bold as used in the passage. Lacunae
(a) Respect (b) Enemy (c) Example
(d) Support (e) Space
129. Choose the word/group of words which is most
OPPOSITE in meaning to the word/group of words
printed in bold as used in the passage. Optimum
(a) Imagination (b) Zenith
(c) Worst (d) Amass
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opposite in meaning to the word/group of words
printed in bold as used in the passage. Disruptive
(a) Abrasive (b) Emulating
(c) Emanating (d) Conservative
(e) Repulsive
Directions (Q.131-135) : A sentence in 5 parts is
denoted by (1), (a), (b), (c) and (d). There is an error
of grammar in parts (a), (b), (c) and (d) which make
the sentence either grammatically or contextually
incorrect. Choose the options with parts containing
error/(s) and ignore errors of punctuations if any.
Note: Consider parts (1) in bold as correct and error
if any in (a), (b), (c) or (d) will only be in two parts.
131. The underlying principle on which the global
institutions (1)/ were founded, of nations handing
out jurisdictional (a)/rights to supranational bodies,
is no longer acceptable (b)/ to large numbers of
citizens even within those countries that were (c)/
founders of these institutions, of that the US used
tobe the undisputed leader (d)/
(a) BC (b) CD
(c) AC (d) AD
(e) None of the parts have errors
132. Russia‟s Vladimir Putin is conspicuously
indifferent (1)/ to Western criticism as his country
enjoys (a)/ the prestige of hosting the World Cup
and adding to his recent electoral victory, (b)/
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has the
look of a man (c)/ who is considering just how far
he had been going in cementing power (d)/
(a) BC (b) BD
(c) AD (d) AB
(e) None of the parts have errors
133. Accompanied by the facts that 1/ the history of the
Indian private sector‘s policy demands from
government (a)/ is chequered to short-termism, and
that (b)/ policy research on the exigencies of the
new economy still being (c)/ in its infancy, the
government has its task cut out (d)/)
(a) BC (b) AB
(c) CD (d) AD
(e) None of the parts have errors
134. Although India opted (1)/ for an extremely
complex GST structure, (a)/ its implementation was
still (b)/ a big breakthrough as problems can (c)/
always be addressed with experience (d)
(a) BD (b) AC
(c) CD (d) AB
(e) None of the parts have errors
135. Just like the demonetization shock, (1)/the
unrealistic timeline for the implementation (a)/ of
the plastic ban has caught all (b)/ stakeholders
unawares, made it (c)/ extremely difficult to comply
(d)/
(a) AD (b) BC
(c) CD (d) AB
(e) None of the parts have errors
Directions (Q.136-140) : In each of the following
sentences there is one blank space. Below each
sentence there are four words denoted by a), b), c)
and d). Find one word that to be fitted in both the
sentences I and II and another word that to fit in
sentence III and to make it meaning fully complete, In
case no word is fit to these sentences, option „e‟ is the
answer.
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136. 1) He was ________ by selectors as he could not do
well in the last round of interview.
2) Garrey was _______ by friends and family when
he started illegal business.
3) Minister said, ―We will have to change our
strategy otherwise we will be ________by
opposition soon.‖
(a) encouraged/ annihilated
(b) asked for/ crushed
(c) induced/ overcome
(d) stimulated/defeated
(e) shunned / overthrown
137. 1) She opened all the bottles of chemicals and
______ them in the water as they were not required
after the experiment.
2) John ________ the carom board halfway through
the game when he found he would lose the game.
3) He was _______ as hero as he saved the lives of
five children.
(a) toppled /overlooked (b) upended / hailed
(c) overturned /snubbed (d) tumbled / degraded
(e) collapsed / affronted
138. 1) Online sellers have been directed to _______
from offering heavy discount on handicraft
products.
2) Industrialists should ________ from discharging
industrial waste into the rivers and lakes.
3) It is the new _________ of management to deal
with the defaulters.
(a) persist/ ploy (b) prolong / maneuver
(c) desist / gambit (d) continue/ strategy
(e) keep/ scheme
139. 1) I ______ the belief that practical knowledge is
more important than theoretical knowledge.
2) I do not ________ the belief that investing money
in mutual funds is best for good returns.
3) The case has been ________as defence has asked
more time to present the witness in the court.
(a) resist / delayed (b) oppose /stopped
(c) defy /interrupted (d) mistrust/put off
(e) espouse/ adjourned
140. 1) The government should be ready with the action
plan to _________ the terrorism problem.
2) The NGO is working to ________ the illiteracy
and to promote the child education in the area.
3) You could have ________ the courage and
completed the mission.
(a) struggle/ scattered (b) tackle/ diffused
(c) prevent / dispersed (d) combat / mustered
(e) counter/ disbanded
Directions (Q.141-150) : In a passage given below
there are 10 blanks, each followed by a word given in
bold. Even blank has four alternative words given in
options (a), (b), (c) and (d). You have to choose which
word will best suit to the respective blank. Choose (e)
as your answer if the word given in the bold after the
blank is your answer i.e “No change requires”.
India has become the 69th shareholder of the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),
paving the way for more joint _(141)_[revenue]_with
Indian companies across the EBRD‘s regions.
The Indian government had applied for
_(142)_[involvement]_in the London-based EBRD in
December 2017. The EBRD board of governors, which
represents all the existing shareholders, voted
_(143)_[interminably]_in favour of the country‘s
application in March 2018, with the entire membership
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process completed this week, the bank said in a (c) forecast (d) conjecture
statement. (e) No change required
―We are very proud and happy to welcome India to our Directions (Q.151-160) : Read the following passage
Bank. This day opens a new _(144)_[portion]_in our carefully and answer the questions given below it.
relations, allowing us to build further on already very Certain words Are given in bold to help you locate
close ties,‖ said EBRD‘s Indian-origin president Suma them while answering some of the questions.
Chakrabarti. The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who
India takes a shareholding in the EBRD but it will not be has free affections and wide interests, who secures his
a recipient of EBRD financing. In the lead up to the happiness through these interests and affections and
membership, the EBRD held its inaugural business forum through the fact that they, in turn, make him an entity of
in Mumbai last month. The conference, co-hosted with interest and fondness to many others. To be the recipient
FICCI and with the _(145)_[alliance]_of the Export- of affection is a potent cause of happiness, but the man
Import (EXIM) Bank of India, was held under the banner who demands affection is not the man upon whom it is
of ―Mobilising private sector finance in the EBRD region bestowed. The man who receives liking is, speaking
and how Indian companies can benefit‖. The membership generally, the man who gives it. But it is useless to
of EBRD would enhance the competitive attempt to give it as a calculation, in the way in which
_(146)_[attentiveness]_of the Indian firms, and provide one might lend money at interest, for a calculated
an enhanced access to international markets in terms of affection is not honest and is not felt to be so by the
business opportunities, procurement activities, beneficiary. What then can a man do who is doomed
consultancy assignments etc. because he is enclosed in self? So long as he continues to
It would also enhance India‘s international profile and think about the causes of his unhappiness, he continues to
promote its economic_(147)_[allowance]_. India‘s be self-centred and therefore does not get outside it. It
investment opportunities would get a boost. The EBRD must be of genuine interest, not by simulated interests
has already cooperated with Indian enterprises on joint adopted merely as a medicine. Although this difficulty is
projects worth almost one billion euros, including real, there is never the less much that he can do if he has
investments with Tata, Jindal and Mahindra and rightly diagnosed his trouble. If for instance, his woe is
Mahindra. The EBRD is also working closely with due to a sense of depravity, conscious or unconscious, he
leading Indian organisations, such as FICCI, CII, can first influence his conscious mind that he has no
ASSOCHAM and ISA. reason to feel sinful, and then proceed, to plant this
The EBRD is a multilateral development bank set rational conviction in his unconscious mind, concerning
_(148)_[over]_in 1991 after the fall of the Berlin Wall to himself meanwhile with some more or less neutral
promote private and entrepreneurial initiative in activity. If he prospers in dismissing the sense of
emerging Europe. It invests in 38 emerging economies immorality, it is possible that genuine unbiased interests
across three continents, according to a set of criteria that will arise spontaneously. If his trouble is self-pity, he can
aims to make its countries more competitive, better deal with it in the same manner after first persuading
governed, greener, more inclusive, more himself that there is nothing extraordinarily unfortunate
_(149)_[elastic]_and more integrated. India‘s in his circumstances. If fright is his worry, let him drill
membership opens up further joint investment exercises designed to give bravery.
_(150)_[scenario]_in markets such as Central Asia etc. Courage has been recognized from time immemorial as
141. (a) proceeds (b) earnings an important virtue, and a great part of the training of
(c) advantage (d) investment boys and young men has been devoted to producing a
(e) No change required type of character capable of fearlessness in battle. But
142. (a) organization (b) membership moral courage and intellectual courage have been much
(c) connection (d) correlation less studied. The also, however, have their technique.
(e) No change required Admit to yourself every day at least one painful truth,
143. (a) unremittingly (b) frequently you will fin it quite useful. Teach yourself to feel that life
(c) assiduously (d) unanimously would still be worth living even if you were not, as of
(e) No change required course, you are, immeasurably superior to all your
144. (a) part (b) sector friends in virtue and in intelligence. Exercises of this
(c) chapter (d) section kind protracted through numerous years will, at last,
(e) No change required enable doing, might free you from the empire of fear on a
145. (a) combination (b) grouping very large scale.
(c) union (d) support 151. What does calculated affection mean?
(e) No change required (a) affection which is recieved unwillingly
146. (a) focus (b) awareness (b) affection which is temporary
(c) strength (d) intensity (c) affection which is bogus and forge
(e) No change required (d) affection which comes as an alm
147. (a) revenue (b) turnover (e) None of these
(c) profit (d) interests 152. According to the passage, a happy man
(e) No change required (a) is self-engaged
148. (a) off (b) up (b) has free affection and wide interests
(c) in (d) to (c) is free from outward passions
(e) No change required (d) has no grudge
149. (a) pliable (b) bendable (e) None of these
(c) resilient (d) lithe 153. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in
(e) No change required the context of the passage?
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(b) Courage has been recognized as an important (d) Bit (e) None of these
virtue. 164. What is the mean of the Booting in the system?
(c) A happy man lives objectively (a) Restarting computer
(d) A happy man does not demand affection (b) Install the program
(e) moral courage and intellectual courage has (c) To scan
been extensively studied. (d) To turn off
154. Which of the following virtues, according to the (e) None of these
passage, has been recognized for long as an 165. Which one of the following groups contains
important virtue? graphical file extensions?
(a) isolation (b) oblation (a) JPG, CPX, GCM (b) GIF, TCE, WMF
(c) courage (d) unassertiveness (c) TCP, JPG, BMP (d) JPG, GIF, BMP
(e) None of these (e) None of these
155. Which of the following words is SIMILAR in the 166. Which type of program acts as an intermediary
meaning of the word ‗simulated‘ as used in the between a user of a computer and the computer
passage? hardware?
(a) imitated (b) accommodated (a) Operating system (b) User thread
(c) trusted (d) directed (c) Super user thread (d) Application program
(e) none of these (e) None of these
156. A man who is suffering from the feeling of self-pity 167. What kind of language can computer understand?
should (a) Normal language (b) Computer language
(a) develop a feeling of fearlessness. (c) Assembly language (d) High-level language
(b) persuade himself that everything is alright in (e) None of these
his circumstances. 168. Which of the following values is the correct value of
(c) seek affection from others. this binary code 1011 and 1111?
(d) control his passions and emotions (a) 11 and 14 (b) 12 and 15 (c) 11 and 15
(e) consult an expert to diagnose his trouble. (d) 12 and 14 (e) None of these
157. Which of the following statements is TRUE in the 169. What is the speed of computer measured in?
context of the passage? (a) Nanoseconds (b) Kilo-seconds
(a) Passions stem from unhappiness (c) Gigahertz (d) Megabytes
(b) A happy man lives subjectively (e) None of these
(c) Virtues have dark sides as well 170. Which one of the following software applications
(d) Affection can be demanded would be the most appropriate for performing
(e) Courage is the virtue to face worries numerical and statistical calculations?
158. Which of the following statements is SIMILAR in (a) Database (b) Document processor
meaning to the word ‗potent‘ as used in the (c) Graphics package (d) Spreadsheet
passage? (e) None of these
(a) adventurous (b) callous 171. Which of the following is exclusively a sequential
(c) vigourous (d) shrinking access storage device?
(e) audible (a) Hard disk (b) Floppy disk
159. Which of the following words is OPPOSITE in (c) Magnetic tape (d) DVD
meaning of the word ‗ conviction‗ as used in the (e) None of these
passage? 172. Which one of the following is not a form of data
(a) belief (b) certainity (c) stance storage media?
(d) doubt (e) influential (a) A database (b) Magnetic tape
160. When you think about the cause of your (c) Magnetic disc (d) Optical disc
unhappiness, you (e) All of these
(a) introspect and look critically at yourself. 173. What are five main components of a computer
(b) realize that life can be lived in different ways. system?
(c) practise exercise designed to give coverage. (a) CPU, CD-ROM, Mouse, Keyboard, Sound
(d) become a self-centred person. card
(e) None of these (b) Memory, Video card, Monitor, Software,
Hardware
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE (c) Modem, Keyboard, Word Processor, Printer,
161. A process is a _______. Screen
(a) Single thread of execution. (d) CPU, Memory, System bus, Input, Output
(b) program in the execution (e) None of these
(c) program in the memory 174. Which of the following statement is correct
(d) task regarding a template prepared by a word processing
(e) none of these package?
162. What is the term for a temporary storage area that (a) Any document can be saved as a template.
compensates for differences in data rate and data (b) Default template is used when you create a new
flow between devices? file.
(a) Buffer (b) Bus (c) Channel (c) Many templates contain text that gives one
(d) Modem (e) None of these advice on how to use the template.
163. Which of the following is the smallest visual (d) Default settings are reflected by the normal
element on a video monitor? document template and cannot be overwritten.
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175. Which of the following would be the correct (e) None of these
description for WORM virus? 188. Which of the following statement is correct about
(a) It infects the boot sector. the PCI?
(b) It propagates through the internet and e-mail. (a) PCI is a hardware device.
(c) It has no effect in increasing the internet traffic. (b) PCI is software that is used to transfer the data.
(d) It alters the folder structure. (c) PCI is an interface of the OS.
(e) None of these (d) All of the these
176. A hard disk drive can be directly connected to a PC (e)None of these
via a _____. 189. Which of the following is a non-volatile memory
(a) SCSI interface (b) Parallel interface chip?
(c) WAN interface (d) USB interface (a) EEPROM (b) RAM (c) DRAM
(e) None of these (d) SRAM (e) SDRAM
177. The use of the IC in a computer has ______. 190. Which of the following processor has a fixed length
(a) Increased the amount of heating of instructions?
(b) Reduced the size and cost of computers (a) Main processor (b) COM
(c) Reduced the peripheral devices to be used (c) Dual Core (d) RISC
(d) Reduced the performance capacity of the (e) None of these
computer 191. What is the full form of HLDA?
(e) None of these (a) High-Level Data Application
178. What is the full form of SCSI? (b) High-Level Definition Application
(a) Standard computer systems interface (c) Hold Link Data Application
(b) Small computer systems interface (d) HOLD Acknowledge
(c) Super computer systems interface (e) None of these
(d) Small computer standard interface 192. In which of the following, the second-generation
(e) None of these computer was based?
179. Which one of the following is not input device? (a) Transistor (b) Electron tube
(a) Keyboard (b) Mouse (c) Electron ray (d) Vacuum tube
(c) Speaker (d) Scanner (e) All of these
(e) None of these 193. What is a single dot on a computer screen called?
180. Which one of the following is an example of the (a) Desktop (b) Color dot (c) Pixel
browser software? (d) Screen dot (e) All of these
(a) Microsoft Word (b) Notepad 194. Which of the following statement is correct about
(c) Internet navigator (d) Internet explorer the URL?
(e) None of these (a) URL is a software that connects to the internet
181. What is the use of the computer port? (b) URL is the address of the web page
(a) Download the file via the internet (c) URL is the domain name
(b) To connect with other devices (d) All of the these
(c) To reduce the internet speed (e) None of these
(d) None of the these 195. Which of the following device is not a portable
(e) All of these device?
182. Which of the following device is used for gaming? (a) DVD (b) Mobile phone
(a) Speaker (b) Mouse (c) Pen drive (d) None of the these
(c) Joystick (d) None of the these (e) All of these
(e) All of these 196. Which of the following address is generated by
183. A spreadsheet is the best application for _______. CPU?
(a) Writing an information (a) Logical address (b) Physical address
(b) Handling simple accounts (c) Actual address (d) Simple address
(c) Producing a grid-referenced map (e) All of these
(d) Keeping an inventory of equipment used 197. What kind of file does the "BAK" extension refer
(e) None of these to?
184. Which one of the following printers is suitable for (a) System file (b) Backup file
printing sprocket-fed carbon copies? (c) Boot file (d) Binary file
(a) Normal printer (b) Solid Ink printer (e) All of these
(c) Dot-matrix printer (d) Business Inkjet printer 198. Which device contains a cathode ray tube?
(e) None of these (a) Speaker (b) Mouse (c) Monitor
185. The speed of a modern printer is generally measured (d) Keyboard (e) None of these
in __________. 199. What is the ".BAT" extension?
(a) LPS (b) PPM (c) PPS (a) System file (b) Backup file
(d) DPI (e) None of these (c) Storage file (d) None of the these
186. The term A: \ refers to ____. (e) None of these
(a) Filename (b) Root directory 200. What is the use of the computer port?
(c) Hard disk (d) Subdirectory (a) Download the file via the internet
(e) None of these (b) To connect with other devices
187. Which of the following languages computer (c) To reduce the internet speed
understand? (d) None of the these
(a) JAVA language (b) C language (e) All of these
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EXPLANATIONS All papers can never be silvers is not true. All
golds can never be papers is not true. All papers
1. a 2. b 3. e 4. c 5. d can never be golds is true. So, only conclusions III
6. a 7. b 8. c 9. b 10. a follow.
11. b 12. b 13. a 14. b 15. c 45. c; Option 1 strengthens the argument, but does not
16. e 17. c 18. a 19. b 20. b talk about the dangerousness of enforcing a law
21. c 22. d 23. b 24. a 25. d that prohibits arranged marriages, thus it is
26. c 27. d 28. d 29. b 30. d eliminated.
31. c 32. c 33. b 34. b 35. b Option 2 strengthens the argument, but does not
36. a 37. b 38. d 39. b 40. b talk about the futility of law enforcement against
41. c; From the given information, we get arranged marriages as mentioned in the passage,
and is thus eliminated.
Options 4 and 5 are eliminated as they weaken the
argument instead of strengthening it.
Option 3 is the right answer is it most effectively
strengthens the argument by suggesting that
enforcing such laws is not only futile but can also
prove dangerous.
46. d; The passage supports the view that an unbiased
form of history must be taught in schools. I is
incorrect as it strengthens the passage. Likewise,
for II and IV. III is correct as it contradicts the
passage by suggesting that national pride should
be given precedence over teaching facts. V is
So, the final position of Gita with respect to point correct as it contradicts the passage by
E is North - West. undermining the need to teach facts that depict the
42. a; Only a few sounds are noise. Only a few country in a poor light. D is the right answer.
decibels are pitches. Some pitches are sounds. 47. b; I strengthens the argument given in the passage
that certain content of certain books indeed have a
negative impact on children. II too strengthens as
it gives a trait of teenagers that comes up while
reading a book. III is an add-on point to the
passage. IV strengthens the argument of
blacklisting of books as it tells us various
instances that must have led to the banning of
certain type of books. V is a generic point wherein
Some noises are pitches is a possibility but not a it talks about banning reading as a whole and not
definite truth. At least some decibels are sounds is particular books with inconsiderate material and
a possibility but not a definite truth. All pitches hence V cannot be considered as a valid
can never be sounds is not true. None of the challenge. VI is an additional information about
conclusions follow what authors feel about the ban. So, (b) is the
43. e; Only a few powders are liquids. No liquid is a correct answer.
gel. Some gels are powders. 48. c; The passage clearly highlights how online
courses are more flexible and easier to pursue, and
by extension, more convenient for students. It also
compares the flexibility and convenience of online
courses which is not there in traditional university
education. So, I and III can be inferred. II cannot
be inferred as insufficient info is provides to
conclude this. IV is incorrect as the passage gives
no data about number of people who prefer doing
All gels being powders is a possibility is true. All online courses versus those who prefer traditional
powders being liquids is a possibility is not true. university education. C is the right answer.
All powders being gels is a possibility is not true. (49-51)
So, only conclusion I follows.
44. c; Only a few golds are silvers. Some silvers are 49. c;
papers. All copper are papers. No copper are 50. a;
golds. 51. a;
52. c; Option A is the underlying assumption of the
reason for the transition to Web 3.0, the
implication being that it will transform the face of
online shopping. Thus, it can be inferred from the
passage, and is eliminated.
Option B can be inferred from the context of the
passage, which explains to us how Web 3.0
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personalized shopping experience. Thus Option B Step 1: 58 41 69 solution 13 serious 66 76 72 sector

is eliminated. sorrow 53
Based on the information provided about Web 3.0 Step 2: 58 69 41 solution 13 serious 66 76 72 sector
and its revolutionary effects on e-commerce, sorrow 53
Option D can be directly inferred from the context Step 3: 58 69 sorrow 41 solution 13 serious 66 76 72
of the passage. Thus, Option D which is basically sector 53
reiterating what has already been mentioned in the Step 4: 58 69 sorrow 66 41 solution 13 serious 76 72
passage, is eliminated. sector 53
Option E has been implied several times in the Step 5: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 41 solution 13 serious 76
passage which claims to compare the advertising 72 sector
techniques used. Thus, Option E is eliminated. Step 6: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 solution 41 13 serious 76
Option C offers new and unrelated information 72 sector
about Web 3.0, mentioning about trust and Step 7: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 solution 72 41 13 serious
privacy and how it would be affected by Web 3.0. 76 sector
The passage mentions nothing in this regard, thus Step 8: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 solution 72 41 serious 13
Option C cannot be inferred from the passage and 76 sector
is the right answer. Step 9: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 solution 72 41 serious 76
53. e; Given statements: P ≥ Q; R = S; R < T; T < U; 13 sector
Q≥S 56. e;
On combining: P ≥ Q ≥ S = R < T < U 57. e;
Conclusions: 58. a; Step 5: 58 69 sorrow 66 53
I. P > T --> False (as P ≥ Q ≥ S = R < T --> 41 solution 13 serious 76 72 sector
thus clear relation between P and T cannot be 59. b; Step 6: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 solution 41 13
determined) serious 76 72 sector
II. Q = U --> False (as Q ≥ S = R < T < U --> 60. b; Step 6: 58 69 sorrow 66 53 solution 41 13
thus clear relation between Q and U cannot serious 76 72 sector
be determined) (61-62)
III. P > R --> False (as P ≥ Q ≥ S = R --> P ≥ R)
Therefore, none of the conclusions are true.
Hence, option e.
54. d; Given statements: A > B; C > D; C = E; F > E; Box B was the heaviest
B = G; B ≥ D 61. a;
On combining: A > B = G ≥ D < C = E < F 62. d;
Conclusions: (63-67)
I. D ≤ G --> True (as B ≥ D and B = G --> G ≥
D)
II. A ≥ C --> False (as A > B ≥ D < C --> thus
clear relation between A and C cannot be
determined)
III. F > D --> True (as D < C = E < F --> D < F)
Therefore, only conclusion I and III follow.
55. c; Given statements: G > T ≥ V > C; V > A ≤ F <
H
On combining, we get-
G > T ≥ V > A ≤ F < H and 63. c;
C<V>A≤F<H 64. b;
Conclusions: 65. b;
I. C < H --> False (As C < V > A ≤ F < H, the 66. b;
exact relation between C and H can‘t be 67. d;
established) 68. e; There are 2 such pairs.
II. G > F --> False (As G > T ≥ V > A ≤ F, the WATERBOTTLE
exact relation between G and F can‘t be WATERBOTTLE
established) (69-73)
III. T > A --> True (As T ≥ V > A, T > A)
Hence, option c.
(56-60)
The arrangement has got even and odd numbers and
words. The even numbers are arranged in increasing
order, the odd numbers in decreasing order and words
in reverse alphabetical order in the sequence. In the
first step, the smallest even number is kept first. In the
second step, the largest odd number is kept next. In the
third step, the last alphabetical word is kept and the 69. b;
pattern continues till all the elements are rearranged. 70. e; Nobody has off on Thursday, the immediate day
Input: 41 69 solution 13 serious 66 58 76 72 sector after T does technical checks.
sorrow 53 71. a;
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73. e; Wing 4, whose technical check is done on a And sum of downstream distance covered in ‗t 1‘ seconds
Friday has its off on Sunday. and upstream distance covered in same time = 360 m
74. c; Currently there is not apparent way to control a  4  t1  a  4 t1  90
a  4 t1  a  4  t1 360
the bitcoin and it could potentially encourage
black market activities. So, countries can
temporarily ban its use. a  4 a 4 1
But they could enter the Bitcoin market in future 
"cautiously" and "step by step" to potentially a4a4 4
challenge the dollar's sovereignty. a = 16
So, 1 and 2 both are to be the course of actions. Speed of boat A in still water = 16 m/s
75. c; The conclusion here is that the women have Boat B:
voted enthusiastically in elections. The evidence Let speed of boat B in still water = ‗b‘ m/s
given as the basis for this is that the team of Let time taken by boat B to cover downstream distance =
Indian Express encountered long queues of voters ' t 2 ' seconds
in all booths. For the conclusion to be true, it must
Difference between downstream distance covered in ' t 2 '
be true that the team encountered that most of the
voters standing in the queues were women. seconds and upstream distance covered in same time =
(76-79)  
320 450 / 3600  40m
And sum of downstream distance covered in ‗t 2‘ seconds
and upstream distance covered in same time = 240 m
b  4 t2  b  4 t2 
40
b  4 t2  b  4  t2 240
b4b4 1

b  4 b  4 6
8 1

76. d; 2b 6
77. a; No one sits between K and the one who likes b = 24
DD when counted from the right of DD Speed of boat B in still water = 24 m/s
78. e; J and the one who likes TP are immediate Boat C:
neighbors of the one who likes KK Let speed of boat C in still water = ‗c‘ m/s
79. d; Both (a) and (c) are true Let time taken by boat C to cover downstream distance =
80. b; Option A is incorrect, as this is the actual ‗t3‘ seconds
meaning of Veer's statement, and not Sasha's Difference between downstream distance covered in ‗t 3‘
inference. Option C is eliminated as the passage Second and upstream distance covered in same time =
does not talk about success. Option D is 320 × (900/ 3600) = 80 m
eliminated as Veer says nothing about college and And sum of downstream distance covered in ‗t 3‘ seconds
decision making. Option B is the right answer, as and upstream distance covered in same time = 400 m
Sasha interprets Veer's remarks to mean that the c  4 t3  c  4 t3  80
only thing to be gained from college is securing a
good job. c  4 t3  c  4 t3 400
(81-55) c4c4 1
Let the speed of stream of river ‗P‘ = ‗s‘ m/s 
So, the speed of man in still water =150% of s = (3s/2) c4c4 5
m/s 8 1
And 2/3 of his usual speed in still water = 
3s / 2 2 / 3 = ‗s‘ m/s 2c 5
a  20
80 80
 2 Speed of boat C in still water = 20 m/s
s  s  3s 
 s Boat D:
 2 Let speed of boat D in still water = ‗d‘ m/s
Let time taken by boat D to cover downstream distance =
 1 2
80    2 ' t 4 ' seconds
 2 s 5s  Difference between downstream distance covered in ‗t 4‘
s  4m / s seconds and upstream distance covered in same time =
So, the speed of stream of river ‗P‘ = 4 m/s 320 × (78.750/ 3600) = 70 m
Boat A: And sum of downstream distance covered in ‗t 4‘ seconds
Let speed of boat A in still water = ‗a‘ m/s and upstream distance covered in same time = 210 m
Let tike taken by boat A to cover downstream distance = d  4  t4  d  4 t4  70
‗t‘ seconds
Difference between downstream distance covered in ‗t 1‘
d  4 t4  d  4  t4 210
seconds and upstream distance covered in same time = d 4d4 1


320 101.25 / 360  90m
0 0
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8 1 So,
 100  x 720
2d 3 20  4
d 12 100 60
100 – x – 20 = 60
Speed of boat D in still water = 12 m/s
80 – x = 60
Boat E :
x = 20
Let speed of boat E in still water = ‗e‘ m/s
83. (a); Initial speed of stream of river ‗P‘ = 4 m/s
Let time taken by boat E to cover downstream distance =
Let new speed of stream of river P = ‗p‘ m/s
‗t5‘ seconds
Speed of boat B in still water = 24 m/s
Difference between downstream distance covered in ‗t 5‘
So,
seconds and upstream distance covered in same time =
 
320 450 / 3600  40m
135

135
12  p 24  p
4
And sum of downstream distance covered in ‗t5‘ seconds
and upstream distance covered in same time = 280 m 24  p  12  p
135 4
e  4  t5  e  4  t5 
40 12  p 24  p 
e  4 t5  e  4  t5 280 
13512  4 288 36 p  p 2 
e  4 e  4 1
 405 28 36 p  p 2
e4e4 7
8 1 p 2  36 p 117 0

2e 7 p 2  39 p  3 p 1170
a = 28 p p  39 3  p  39 0
Speed of boat E in still water = 28 m/s
Boats Speed of boat (m/s) in still water p3
A 16 Required percentage = 4  3 / 4100 25%
B 24 84. (b); Let speed of stream of river ‗Q‘ = ‗q‘ m/s
C 20 Speed of boat A in still water = 16 m/s
D 12 Speed of boat E in still water = 28 m/s
E 28 Distance covered by the man by boat A in
81. (d); Speed of stream of river ‗P‘ = 4 m/s downstream direction = 60% of 300 = 180 m
Speed of boat A in still water = 16 m/s Distance covered by the man by boat E in
Speed of boat D in still water = 12 m/s downstream direction = 300 – 180 = 120 m
Let upstream distance = downstream distance = ‗d‘ So,
m 180
So,
16  q 5
d d 
  10 120 2
16  4 12  4
28  q
d d
  10 180 120
12 16 2 5
16  q 28  q
8d  6d
10 3 5
96 
16  q 28  q
d = 480 m
So, total time taken by the man during the whole 84  3q  80 5q
journey. q  2m / s
480 480 Speed of stream of river ‗Q‘ = 2 m/s
 
16  4 12  4 Speed of stream of river ‗P‘ = 4 m/s
= 70 seconds Required ratio = 2 : 4 = 1 : 2
82. (e); Speed of stream of river ‗P‘ = 4 m/s 85. (c); Speed of stream of river ‗Q‘ = 2 m/s
Speed of boat C in still water = 20 m/s Speed of boat C in still water = 20 m/s
Time taken by boat C during the whole journey = Speed of boat D in still water = 12 m/s
1.5 minutes = 90 seconds. Speed of boat C while coming back = 20 – 2 = 18
The distance that has to be covered by boat C = 1.2 m/s
km = 1200 m Speed of boat D while coming back = 12 – 2 = 10
The distance covered by boat C with its original m/s
speed = 40% of 1200 = 480 m Total distance = 300 m
Time taken by boat C to cover 480 m in upstream Distance covered by boat C while coming back =
direction = 480 / (20 – 4) = 30 seconds 60% of 300 = 180 m
Remaining distance = 1200 – 480 = 720 m Distance covered by boat D while coming back =
Time taken by boat C to cover 720 m in upstream 300 – 180 = 120 m
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So, total time taken by the man to cover 300 m xx  12 16x  12 0
x  12x  16 0
while coming back.
180 120
   10 12 22sec onds x = 12, 16
18 12 7 xy   2016 0
(86-90)
When x = 12
Class A = 120
Class D = 130 7 12 y  2016 0
Total number of student in E and C = 320 – 130 = 190 84y – 2016 = 0
Total number of student B and C = 320 – 120 = 200 y = 2016/84 = 24
So in class E total number of student is = 100 When x = 16
So student in C = 90 112y – 2016 = 0
Student in B = 110 y = 2016 / 112 = 18
In class A, the number of student passed only in science Hence , x < y
is = 120 – 80 = 40
In class A only passed in math 40, passed in both = 40,
92. (c); 6 x 2  5x  300 0
fail in both 40 6 x 2  45x  40x  300 0
3x2 x  15 202 x  15 0
3x  202x  15 0
x  20 / 3,  15/ 2
Similarly in class B,
Only passed in science is 40, only math is 50. 5 y 2  66y  160 0
Equal student passed both and failed both.
Both pass = both fail = 110 – 90/2 = 10 5 y 2  50y 16y  160  0
5 y y  10 16 y  10 0
In C,
Passed only science is = 30
Total passed in math is = 50 5 y  16 y  10 0
So , x + x + 50 - x = 60 [x = both fail = both passed]
y   16 / 5,  10
So x = 10
Only math passed 40 Hence, relationship cannot be established
In D, 93. (d); 3x 2  5x  22 0
20 failed in both subject. 10 students passed both subject
So passed only in math = 60 and science = 50 3x 2  6 x  11x  22 0
3xx  2  11x  2  0
In E,
9a + 7a + 10 + 10 = 100, a = 5
On passed in math = 45 , only passed in science = 35 3x  11x  2 0
Only Only x = - 11/3, 2
Lass Student Both Both
math science
A 120 40 40 20 20 y 2  17x  52 0
B 110 50 40 10 10
C 90 40 30 10 10
y 2  4 x 13x  52  0
D 130 60 50 10 20 y y  4  13 y  4 0
E 100 45 35 10 10  y  13 y  4 0
86. (e); Passed both subject in all class = 60
y = 4, 13
Failed both subject in all class = 70
Hence , x < y
So total 130
87. (b); Required percentage is 94. (a); 2 x  5 y  3 (1)
= 235/ 195 100120.51% 3x  4 y  31/ 10 (2)
88. (d); Required percentage is = 130 : 115 = 26 : 23 By solving the equation (1) and (2) , we get
89. (c); Quantity I x = 0.5
Required percentage = 80 / 90 100 88.8 y = 0.4
x>y
Quantity II
Required percentage = 120/ 130100 92.3 95. (c); 12x 2  77x  85 0
Quantity I < Quantity II
12x 2  60x  17x  85 0
90. (a); Total number of student passed in all the class =
100 + 100 + 80 + 120 + 90 = 490 12xx  5 17x  5 0
Total number of student in the class = 550
So required percentage is
12x  17x  5 0
= 490/ 550100 889% x 17 / 12,5
(91-95) 3 y 2  44y  140  0
91. (d); x 2  28x  192 0 3 y 2  30y  14y  140  0
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3 y  14 y  10 0 b = 100 m

y 14 / 3,10
Hence, relationship cannot he established
96. (a); Original average age of the company = x
Initial number of employees and managers = y
Total age of the company = x × y
xy  48 / y  1 x  2
xy  48 x  2   y  1
xy  48 xy  x  2 y  2
x  2 y  46 (1)
xy  50 / y  1 x  4
xy  50 x  4   y  1
xy  50 xy  x  4 y  4
x  4 y  54 (2)
1  2
2y = 8
y=4
x = 54 – 16 = 38
Number of managers = ¼ × 4 = 1
97. (a); Ratio of the number of male to female
population = 100 : 60 = 5 : 3
Number of male population = 12000 × 5/8 = 7500
Number of female population = 12000 × 3/8 = 4500
Ratio of the number of literate to illiterate
population = 140 : 100 = 7 : 5
Illiterate population = 5/12 × 12000 = 5000
Literate population = 7/12 × 12000 = 7000
Ratio of the male illiterate to literate population =
150 : 10 = 3 : 2
Male literate populations = 2/5 × 7500 = 3000
Male illiterate populations = 3/5 × 7500 = 4500
Female literate populations = 7000 – 3000 = 4000
Female illiterate populations = 5000 – 4500 = 500
Required percentage = 500 / 4500 × 100 = 11.11%
98. (d); Ratio of oil and water in vessel A = 150 : 100 =
3:2
Quantity of vessel A = 85 – 45 = 40 liters
Oil in vessel A = 40 × 3/5 = 24 liters
Water in vessel A = 40 × 2/5 = 16 liters
Ratio of oil and water in vessel B = 550/3 : 100 =
11: 6
Oil in vessel B = 85 × 11/17 = 55 liters
Water in vessel B = 85 × 6/17 = 30 liters
Ratio of oil and water in vessel C = 125 : 100 = 5 : 4
Water in vessel C = 72 × 4/9 = 32 liters
Required ratio = (24 + 55 + 40) : (16 + 30 + 32) =
119 : 78
99. (a); Length of train A = a
Length of train B = b
Length of platform = c
Speed of train A = 3x
Speed of train B = 2x
a  c  3x  5 / 18 20
a  b  5x  5 / 18 7.2
a  b 10x
b  2 x  5 / 18 6
3b = 10x
b  2 x  20  5 / 18 9
2b = 10x – 100
3 × 100 = 10x
x = 30 kmph
Speed of train A = 30 × 3 = 90 kmph
Speed of train B = 30 × 2 = 60 kmph
a + 100 = 10 × 30
a = 200m
200 + c = 90 × 5/18 × 20
200 + c = 500
c = 300 m
100. (b); 9C2 / x  19C2  3 / 25
98/1 2/x  19x  18/1 2 3 / 25
72 25 3 x 2  19x  18x  342
 1800 3x 2  111x  1026
3x 2  111x  774 0
x  6x  43  0
x  6,  43 (negative value will be eliminated)
So, x = 6
Required difference = 10 – 6 = 4 balls
101. (e); From 1 we cannot get the marked price, from 2
we get the marked price but from 3 we cannot get
the answer.
102. (d); From 1 and 2 we cannot get the answer because
rate of interest is unknown but from third statement
we can get the answer.
103. (b); None of the above given equation can give the
value of Z but from one and two we can calculate
the value of Z.
104. (a); None single statements can give the answer but
if we use 1 and 2 or 1 and 3 statements then we can
calculate the answer.
105. (c); From both statements we cannot calculate the
length of the train because we do not know the
speed of the train.
(106-110)
Total number of students in BT3 = 1100 – 30 = 1070
Let the number of students in BT3 of college T = a
Number of students in BT3 of college P = 53.33% of a =
16a/30
Number of students in BT3 of college Q = a
Number of students in BT3 of college S = 30% of a =
3a/10
Number of students of BT3 of college R = 22/9 × 3a /10
= 11a/15
According to the given statement,
16a / 30 a  11a / 15  3a / 10  a 1070
a  1070 30 / 107 300
Number of students in BT3 in college P = 160
Number of students in BT3 in college Q = 300
Number of students in BT3 in college R = 220
Number of students in BT3 in college S = 90
Number of students in BT2 of college R = 220 / 110 ×
100 = 200
Number of students in BT1 of college R = 120% of 200
= 240
Total students in college R = 4410
Total number of students in college Q = 4410 – 495 =
3915
Number of students in information technology branch of
college R = 4 × number of students in Mechanical branch
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So, (mechanical + 4 × mechanical + BT1 + BT2 + BT3) Total interest get = 12000 × (1 + 15/100)^2 – 12000
= 4410 = 3870
5 × Mechanical = 4410 – (240 + 200 + 220) Same amount invest in Y also for three,
Students in mechanical branch of college R = 750 So interest gets = 12000 × (1 + 14/100)^ 3 – 12000
Students in information technology of college R = 4 × = 5779
750 = 3000 So average interest = (3870 + 5779) /2 = 4824.5
Number of students in mechanical branch of college P = Rs 1600 invest in O for three years
900 SI = 16000 × 18/100 × 3 = 8640
Number of students in information technology of college Required percentage = [4824.5/8640]× 100 = 56%
P = 900 + 1500 = 2400 112. (c); Quantity I
Number of students in Mechanical branch of college T = Interest in J = 10000 × (1 + 10 / 100) ^ 2 – 10000 =
50% of number of students in Information technology 2100
Students in BT1 of college T = 70 Interest in O = 10000 × (1 + 12 /100) ^ 2 – 10000 =
Students In BT2 of college T = 200 2544
Students in BT3 of college T = 300 (already calculated) Interest in T = 10000 × (1 + 20 / 100) ^ 2 – 10000 =
Total students in college T = 3570 4400
So, (mechanical + 2 × mechanical + 70 + 200 + 300) = Average interest =
3570 2100  2544  4400  / 3  3014
Students in mechanical branch of college T = (3570 –
Quantity II
570)/3 = 1000
Interest in E =
15000  1 15 / 100 ^ 2 15000  4837.5
Students in information technology of college T = 2 ×
1000 = 2000
Number of students in Mechanical branch of college S = Interest in O =
500 + mechanical branch of college Q 15000  1 12 / 100 ^ 2 15000  3816
Total students in mechanical branch of all college = 4350 Interest in Y =
15000  1 14 / 100 ^ 2 15000  4494
So, 900 + mechanical of Q + 750 + mechanical of Q +
500 + 1000 = 4350
Number of students in mechanical branch of college Q = Average interest = 13147.5/3 = 4382.5
(4350 – 3150)/2 = 600 Quantity I < quantity II
Number of students in mechanical branch of college S = 113. (c); So according to the question,
600 + 500 = 1100 22000 1  14 / 100^ r  22000 26289
College BT1 BT2 BT3 IT Mech Total Or, 22000 × (1 + 14 /100) ^ r = 48289
P 160 2400 900
So, r = 6
Q 300 600 3915
21000 × (1 + 12 /100) ^ R – 21000 = 8503
R 240 200 220 3000 750 4410
S 90 1100 R=3
T 70 200 300 2000 1000 3570 Required ratio is = 6 : 3 = 2 : 1
Total 110 1070 12200 4350 114. (d); Total interest ram gets = 6000 × 2/100 × (12 +
0 18 + 14 + 16 + 15) = 9000
106. (b); If total number of students in BT1 = 985 Average interest he gets = 9000/5 = 1800
Total number of students in all colleges together = 115. (e); Quantity I
985+ 1100 + 1070 + 12200 + 4350 = 19705 According to the question = 12000 × (1 + 15/100) ^r
Total number of students in college S = 19705 – = 15870
(3915 – 4410 + 3570 + 4180) = 3630 So r = 2
107. (d); Number of students in BT2 of college Q = 240 Quantity II
Total students in information technology of college According to the question , 32000 × (1 + 12 /100) ^r
Q = 2700 = 40141
Number of students in BT1 of college Q = 3915 – So r = 2
(300 + 600 + 2700 + 240) = 75 Quantity I = quantity II
108. (c); Total number of students in college P = 4180 116. (a); From statement I.
Number of students in (BT1 + BT2) = 4180 – (160 Speed of boat = B
+ 900 + 2400) = 720 Speed of stream = W
Number of students in BT1 = 2 × BT3 = 2 × BT3 = x / B  W   3
2 × 160 = 320
Number of students in BT2 = 720 – 320 = 400
x  40 /B  w 4
109. (a); Number of students in information technology x / 3  x  40 / 4
branch of college Q = 12200 – (2400 + 2100 + 2000 4x = 3x + 120
+ 3000) = 2700 x = 120 km
Number of students in mechanical branch of college So, statement I alone is sufficient to answer the
P = 900 question.
Required % = 2700/900 × 100 = 300% From statement II,
110. (b); Number of students in mechanical branch of
college T = 1000
x  30 /B  W  x  30 /B  W   11
Number of students in IT branch of college R = So, statement II alone is not sufficient to answer the
3000 question.
Required ratio = 1000 : 3000 = 1 : 3 From statement III,
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 60674.4  P  1  6 / 100
So, statement III alone is not sufficient to answer the 2
question.
117. (e); From statement I,  60674.4  P 106/ 100106/ 100
Surya, Nitish and Shon = 3 : 4 : 2
N = R + 4 + 12
P  60674.4100/ 106100/ 106
So, statement I alone is not sufficient to answer the  P  Rs 54000
question We know that
P  1  r / 100  P
From statement II, 2
R + N = 40 CI =

54000 1 5 / 100  54000

S – R or R – S = 15 2
So, statement II alone is not sufficient to answer the =
question = 54000105/ 100105/ 100 54000
From statement III, = 59535 – 54000 = Rs 5535
Shon + Nitish = 44 We know that
Surya = 3x SI = (P × r × t)/100
Nitish = 4x = (54000 × 6 × 3)/100 = Rs 9720
Shon = 3x + 2 Required difference = 9720 – 5535 = Rs 4185
7x + 2 = 44 Hence, any one of the three statements is sufficient.
x=6 119. (b); 2/ Anita + 1/ Kiran = 1/12 (a)
Shon age = 20 years From statement I :
So, statement III alone is sufficient to answer the 1/ Kiran + 1 / Madhav + 1 / Simran = 1/8
question. From statement II:
118. (d); From Statement I: 1/Madhav + 1/ Kiran = 1/15
We know that, for two year From statement III:
CI – SI = P × (r/100)2 1/ Madhav + 1/ Simran = 1/10
 86.4  P  4 / 100
2
From statement I, II and III
1/Kiran + 1/ Madhav + 1/ Simran = 1/8 (i)
 86.4  P  1/ 25
2
1/ Madhav + 1 / Kiran = 1/15 (ii)
1/ Madhav + 1/ Simran = 1/10 (iii)
 P  86.4 625 Eauations (ii) + (III) – (i)
 P  Rs54000 2/ Madhav + 1 / Kiran + 1 / Simran – 1/ Kiran – 1/
We know that Madhav –
1/ Simran = 1/15 + 1/10 – 1/8
 P  1  r / 100  P
2
CI  1/ Madhav = (8 + 12 – 15)/120
 54000 1  5 / 100  54000
2  1/ Madhav = 5/120
 1/ Madhav = 1/24
 54000105/ 100105/ 100  54000 From (ii)
= 59535 – 54000 = Rs 5535 1/24 + 1/ Kiran = 1/15
We know that  1/ Kiran = 1/15 – 1/24
SI = (P × r × t)/100  1/ Kiran = (8 – 5) /120
= (54000 × 6 × 3)/100  1/ Kiran = 3/120
= Rs 9720  1/ Kiran = 1/40
Required difference = 9720 – 5535 = Rs 4185 From (a)
From statement II 2/ Anita + 1/40 = 1/12
We know that  2/ Anita = 1/12 – 1/40
SI  P  r  t  / 100  2/ Anita = (10 – 3)/120
 25920 P  8 6 / 100  2/ Anita = 7/120
 P  2592000/ 48  1/ Anita = 7/240
From (iii)
 P  Rs54000 1/24 + 1/Simran = 1/10
We know that  1/ Simran = 1/10 - 1/24
CI  P  1  r / 100  P
2  1/ Simran = (12 – 5)/120
 1/ Simran = 7/120
 54000 1  5 / 100  54000
2 Let required number of days = n
n × (7/240 + 7/120) = 1
 54000105/ 100105/ 100 54000  n × (7 + 14) /240 = 1
= 59535 – 54000 – Rs 5535  n = 240/21
We know that  n = 80/7 days
SI = P  r  t  / 100 Hence, All I, II and III together are sufficient.
 54000 6 3 / 100 = Rs 9720 120. (d); Statement I:
The share of A and B,
Required difference = 9720 – 5535 = Rs 4185
From Statement III:  10000 4  14000 8: 20000 6 12000 6
We know that  40000112000: 120000 72000
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 19 : 24 169. (c) The computer clock speed is normally calculated
Total profit = 43‘s = Rs 43000 in gigahertz (GHz) or megahertz (MHz). a gigahertz
1‘s = 1000 is equal to one billion ticks per second, and a
The share of B = 24‘s = Rs 24000 megahertz is equal to one million ticks per second.
Statement II: 170. (d) Spread Sheet is the most appropriate for
The share of P and Q performing numerical and statistical calculation. A
 2x  8  2x  1000 4: 3x 12 73:108 spreadsheet is a computer application that is a copy
of a paper that calculates a worksheet. It displays
 16x  8x  4000:36x 73:108 several cells that together form a mesh that includes
According to the question, rows and columns, each cell containing
 24x  4000 / 36x  73x / 108 alphanumeric text, numeric values, or formulas.
171. (c) Magnetic tape is exclusively a sequential access
 72x  12000 73x storage device. Sequential access memory is a type
 x  12000 of data storage devices that read and write the data
The initial investment of P = 2x = Rs 24000 in a series.
172. (a) A database is a collection of information that is
Statement III:
The share of Rahul, Kavin and Malar, organized in such a way that information can be
 1/ 4 1/ 312: 2 / 5 1/ 412:7 / 20 4
easily accessed, managed, and updated. In the
database, we can quickly and easily select the
1:6 / 5: 7 / 5 desired data. For example, the dictionary is
5 : 6 : 7 analogous to a database that is like a file.
Total profit = 18‘s = Rs 72000 173. (d) CPU, Memory, System bus, Input, Output
174. (a) Any document can be saved as a template.
1‘s = 4000
A template is a file that acts as a framework for a
The share of Kavin = 6‘s = Rs 24000
new text. Any document or text can be saved as a
All the threes statements satisfied the value given in the
question. template.
175. (b) A worm virus is a malicious file. This virus can
121. c 122. d 123. c 124. c 125. a
be spread across a network without human aid. It
126. e 127. d 128. e 129. c 130. d
also requires a large amount of bandwidth and
131. d 132. b 133. a 134. e 135. c
136. e 137. b 138. c 139. e 140. d memory. It spreads through the internet and e-mail.
176. (a) SCSI interface
141. d 142. b 143. d 144. c 145. d
A hard disk drive can be directly connected to a PC
146. c 147. d 148. b 149. c 150. b
via a SCSI interface. SCSI is a group of protocols
151. c 152. b 153. e 154. c 155. a
156. d 157. e 158. c 159. d 160. d that send the data between computers and external
devices in a physical manner.
161. (b) A process is a program that is executed by the
177. (b) EThe use of the IC in a computer has reduced
threads. It consists of multiple threads of execution.
the cost of computers. It is an incredibly small
162. (a) Buffer is the temporary storage that can be used
to compensate for a difference in data rate and data electronics chip integrated with a set of electrical
circuits and transistors. It is a very small chip.
flow between devices. In other words, a buffer is an
178. (b) The full name of SCSI is Small computer system
area of physical memory storage used to store data
interface. SCSI is a group of protocols that send the
temporarily.
163. (b) A pixel is the smallest portion of the screen. The data between computers and external devices in a
physical manner.
name Pixel is made from the "Picture element" and
179. (c) Speaker is a hardware output device that is used
is also called the PEL. All screens are made by
for listening to audio by connecting it to a computer
putting millions of pixels together in a matrix form.
164. (a); Booting is a process of the restart the computer. and other devices. The computer's sound card
produces sound waves from the speaker.
After restarting it, there is no software in the
180. (d) Internet explorer is web browser software on the
computer's main memory.
windows computer. It helps to search for anything
165. (d) JPG, GIF, BMP are all extensions of graphical
file. JPG stands for Joint Photographic Experts in the world through the Internet. It is also known as
Microsoft Edge. If you use a Windows computer,
Group, GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format,
this software is already installed on your computer.
and BMP stands for Bitmap Image File.
181. (b) Ports are used to connect other peripheral
166. (a) An OS is a kind of program that acts as an
intermediary for computer hardware and computer devices, such as monitors, keyboards, mouse,
webcam, and so on.
user. The purpose of an operating system is to
182. (c) Joystick is a hardware input device that controls
provide a user-friendly and effective environment
the object on the computer screen. Joysticks are
167. (a) An assembly language is a scripting language
mostly used by gamers to play games.
capable of telling the computer explicitly what to
183. (b) A spreadsheet is a document that is used to
do.
manage, analysis and store information in tabular
168. (c) 1011 = 1 × 23 + 0 × 22 + 1 × 21 + 1 × 20
form. A spreadsheet is the best application for
=8+0+2+1
handling simple accounts.
= 11
184. (c) The dot matrix printer is more suitable for
1111 = 1 × 23 + 1 × 22 + 1 × 21 + 1 × 20
printing sprocket-fed carbon copies as it can extract
=8+4+2+1
multiple copies at once with the help of carbon.
= 15
185. (b) Early printer speeds were measured in units of
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measured in "pages-per-minute" (PPM). Hence,
option c is the right answer.
186. (b) The term "A: \" refers to the root directory of
drive A.
187. (c) The computer knows only the binary language.
The binary language is written in the form of "1s"
and "0s". The binary language is sometimes referred
to as machine language.
188. (a) The full form of PCI is Peripheral Component
Interconnect. It was proposed by Intel in 1992. It is
a hardware device that is used to connect CPU and
expansion boards, such as Modem cards, Network
cards, Video cards, and Sound cards. It is also called
PCI bus, PCI slots, and conventional PCI.
189. (a) EEPROM is a non-volatile memory chip that is
used to store small amounts of data in a computer.
190. (d) The full form of the RISC is Reduced Instruction
Set Computer. It has a fixed length of instructions.
The set of instructions in this processor is small.
191. (d) The full form of HLDA is HOLD Acknowledge.
Whenever an interrupt is introduced, the CPU is
given a hold acknowledging.
192. (a) The second-generation computers were based on
the transistor. The seco nd-generation period was
from 1959 to 1965. At that time, transistors were
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much cheaper, power-efficient, smaller in size, more
reliable, and faster.
193. (c) A single point on a computer screen is called a
pixel. Pixel is a very small dot on the screen.
194. (b) URL means uniform resource locator. URL is
the address of a web page, which is used by a web
browser to access a web page on the internet.
195. (d) All these devices are portable by nature. A user
can pick up all these devices comfortably and can
move them from one place to another.
196. (a) The CPU generates the logical address. The
logical address is also sometimes called a virtual
address. This address is stored in the system's virtual
memory.
197. (b) The "BAK" extension refers to the backup file. It
is a file extension that is used to create a backup
copy of a file.
198. (c) Cathode ray tubes are used in many electrical
devices, such as monitors, televisions, radar screens,
and so on. It is also known as CRT.
199. (a) The ".BAT" extension is a batch file extension,
and it is sometimes referred to as a system file
extension.
200. (b) Ports are used to connect other peripheral
devices, such as monitors, keyboards, mouse,
webcam, and so on.
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(C) Singur (D) Burdwan
1. ________ was an important member of the 11. Who among the following analysed the causes of
Hindustan Republican Association, who along with the uprising of 1857 advocating a reconciliation
his associates executed the train decoity at between the British and the Muslims?
Karakori? (A) Sayyed Ahmad Brelvi
(A) Khudiram Bose (B) Jatin Banerjee (B) Shah Waliullah
(C) Ashfaqulla Khan (D) Sohan Singh Bhakna (C) Sayyed Ahmad Khan
2. Who introduced the ‗Doctrine of Lapse‘? (D) Sayyed Amir Ali
(A) Lord Canning (B) Lord Dalhousie 12. Which of the following authorised the British
(C) Lord Wellesley (D) Lord Lytton Government to imprison any person without trial
3. Who among the following was elected as the and conviction in a court of law-
President of the Indian National Congress in the (A) Rowlatt Act of 1919
years 1938 and 1939 ? (B) Government of India Act 1935
(A) Rajendra Prasad (B) Subhash Chandra Bose (C) India Council Act of 1909
(C) C Rajagopalchari (D) Annie Besant (D) Government of India Act, 1919
4. ‗A Plan of Economic Development for India‘ which 13. Name the ‗Political Guru‘ of Mahatma Gandhi
was prepared by a cross-section of India‘, which (A) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
was prepared by a cross-section of India‘s leading (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
capitalists in 1944, was popularly known as the (C) Aurobindo Ghosh
______ Plan. (D) Lala Lajpat Rai
(A) Mysore (B) Calcutta 14. The National Anthem was first sung in year 1911 at
(C) Allahabad (D) Bombay the Annual session of the Indian National Congress
5. Which of the following according to Mahatma held at:
Gandhi, is the strongest force in the world? (A) Pune (B) Mumbai
(A) Non-violence of the brave (C) Kolkata (D) Lucknow
(B) Non-violence of the weak 15. On which day is Constitution day is celebrated in
(C) Non-violence of the coward India?
(D) Non-violence of the down-trodden (A) 15 October (B) 2 October
6. According to Dadabhai Naoroji ‗Swaraj‘ means (C) 30 November (D) 26 November
(A) Complete independence 16. The Constitution of India was framed by-
(B) Self government (A) Planning Commission
(C) Economic independence (B) Constituent Assembly
(D) Political independence (C) President
7. Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the (D) Working Committee
writings of- 17. The United Nations General Assembly has
(A) Bernard Shaw (B) Karl Marx designated the year 2021 as?
(C) Lenin (D) Leo lstoy (A) International Year Against Terrorism
8. Who said ―Patriotism is religion and religion is love (B) International Year of Health Care
for India‖? (C) International Year to fight COVID
(A) Raj Narain Bose (D) International Year of Fruits and Vegetables
(B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 18. What does the wheel in the National Flag represent?
(C) Swami Vivekananda (A) Speed (B) Truth
(D) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (C) Growth (D) Future
9. The song ‗Jana-Gana-Mana‘ composed by Rabindra 19. Which Union Minister is the author of the novel
Nath Tagore was first published in January 1912 ‗Lal Salaam‘?
under the title of (A) Piyush Goyal (B) Smriti Zubin Irani
(A) Jay He (B) Rashtra Jagriti (C) Rajnath Singh (D)Dharmendra Pradhan
(C) Bharat Vidhata (D) Matribhoomi 20. Bicameral system is a feature of which of the
10. At which place in Bengal was the East India following form of government?
Company given permission to trade and build a (A) Parliamentary system
factory by the Mughals in 1651? (B) President system
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(D) Unitary system (A) 3 (B) 4

21. The division of power and Independence of (C) 6 (D) 7
Judiciary are two important features of- 34. Which state has the largest area in India?
(A) Democratic character of government (A) Uttar Pradesh (B) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Federal character of government (C) Maharashtra (D) Rajasthan
(C) Socialist character of government 35. Which of the following higher ground is not the part
(D) Unitary character of government of Telangana Plateau?
22. The Advantage of unitary system of governance is- (A) Aravalli (B) Western ghat
(A) More adaptability (C) Eastern ghat (D) Satpura
(B) Strong state 36. A pass in Himachal Pradesh is –
(C) More participation by the people (A) Shipkila (B) Zoji la
(D) Less chance of authoritarianism (C) Nathula (D) Jelap la
23. Which of the following is not a feature of Indian 37. Match with correct pairs-
Constitution? List – 1 List – 2
(A) Parliamentary form of Government A. Pulicat Lake 1. Orissa
(B) Independence of Judiciary B. Chilka Lake 2. Rajasthan
(C) Presidential form of Government C. Wular Lake 3. Tamil Nadu
(D) Federal Government D. Sambhar Lake 4. Kashmir
24. Democratic Socialism aims at- Codes:
(A) bringing about Socialism through peaceful A B C D
means (A) 3 1 4 2
(B) bringing about Socialism through violent and (B) 3 4 2 1
peaceful means (C) 4 1 3 2
(C) bringing about Socialism through violent (D) 1 2 4 3
means 38. Which Himalayan peak is also called as
(D) bringing about Socialism through democratic Sagarmatha-
means (A) Nanga Parvat (B) Dhaulagiri
25. Which of the following exercised the most profound (C) Mt. Everest (D) Kanchenjunga
inference in framing of Indian Constitution? 39. The range that acts as watershed between India and
(A) British Constitution Turkistan is
(B) U.S. Constitution (A) Zaskar (B) Kailash
(C) Irish Constitution (C) Karakoram (D) Ladakh
(D) GOI act, 1935 40. The northern part of the west coast in India is
26. ‗Akasa Air‘, which was approved to operate in known as
India, is backed by which businessman? (A) Konkan coast (B) Coromandel coast
(A) Mukesh Ambani (C) Malabar coast (D) Godavari coast
(B) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala 41. Which of the following processes is responsible for
(C) Radhakishan Damani producing the sand dunes in western Rajasthan?
(D) Uday Kotak (A) Wind erosion (B) Erosion by water
27. The constituent Assembly was set up in- (B) Wind deposition (D) Mechanical weathering
(A) 1945 (B) 1946 42. Badland topography is characteristic of :
(C) 1947 (D) 1949 (A) Chambal valley (B) Coastal area
28. Who among the following was not a member of the (C) Sundarban delta (D) Gulf of Kachchh
constitution Assembly? 43. In a Capitalistic Economy, the prices are determined
(A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel by-
(B) Acharya J.B. Kripalani (A) Demand and Supply
(C) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Government and Authorities
(D) K.M. Munshi (C) Buyers in the market
29. Garo-Khasi range is located in which Indian state? (C) Sellers in the market
(A) Meghalaya (B) Mizoram 44. The terms ―Micro Economics‖ and Macro
(C) Odisha (D) Sikkim Economics‖ were coined by-
30. Which of the following passes cuts through (A) Alfred Marshall (B) Ranger Nurkse
PirPanjal range range and links Manali and Leh by (C) Ranger Frisch (D) J.M. Keynes
road? 45. Price mechanism is a feature of-
(A) Baralachala Pass (B) Rohtang Pass (A) Capitalist economy (B) Barter economy
(C) Nathula Pass (D) Banihal Pass (C) Mixed economy (D) Socialist economy
31. The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian 46. Who is the first Chairman of Insolvency and
Desert, lies towards the Western margins of ______ Bankruptcy Board of India?
hills. (A) MS Sahoo (B) PK Sinha
(A) Aravali (B) Javadi (C) SN Sinha (D) PK Mohapatra
(C) Shevroy (D) Udgalakal 47. On which commission‘s recommendations; Reserve
32. Which among the following peaks is NOT located Bank of India was established?
in Nepal Himalayas? (A) Chamberlain Commission
(A) Annapurna (B) Kamet (B) Hilton Young Commission
(C) Lhotse (D) Mount Everest (C) Keynes Commission
33. The area of India is ______ times larger than the (D) None of the above
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48. The difference between revenue expenditure and (C) Bacteria (D) Protozoa
Revenue receipts is called ? 62. Which virus from the following combinations is
(A) Primary deficit (B) Revenue deficit contagious for human beings?
(C) Budget deficit (D) Capital deficit (A) H5N1 (B) H1N5
49. G.S.T was implemented in India from ? (C) H2N3 (D) H4N2
(A) 1st June 2017 (B) 1st April 2017 63. Which of the following micro-organisms is used in
(C) 1st May 2016 (D) 1st July 2017 milk curdiling?
50. There is a Chinese company doing business in India. (A) Acetobacter (B) Leuconostoc
The profit made by the company will be part of: (C) Bacillus (D) Lactobacillus
(i) India‘s GDP (ii) China‘s GNP 64. Bacteriophage was discovered by-
Select the correct answer using the code given (A) Felix d‘ Herelle and Frederick Twort
below: (B) Kluyver and Niel
(A) (i)only (B) (ii) only (C) Paul Ehrlich
(C) Both (i) & (ii) (D) Neither (i) nor (ii) (D) Burill and Smith
51. SAUBHAGYA scheme, which recently completed 4 65. An organism which can monitor air pollution is
years, is being implemented by which Union (A) Bacteria (B) Lichen
Ministry? (C) Algae (D) Fungi
(A) Ministry of Home Affairs 66. Yeast is a ______
(B) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (A) Bacteria (B) Fungi
(C) Ministry of Power (C) Algae (D) Bryophyte
(D) Ministry of Science and Technology 67. What determines the colour of a star?
52. Inflation can be checked by- (A) Temperature (B) Distance
(A) Increasing exports (C) Radius (D) Atmospheric Pressure
(B) Increasing money supply 68. Ocean currents are an example of ______.
(C) Increasing government expenditure (A) Convention (B) Conduction
(D) Decreasing money supply (C) Insulation (D) Radiation
53. Who maintains the foreign exchange reserves in 69. The word insolation means-
India ? (A) The matters which insulate
(A) Reserve Bank of India (B) Incoming solar radiation
(B) State Bank of India (C) Insoluble matters
(C) Ministry of Finance, Government of India (D) None of these above
(D) Export-Import Bank of India 70. Mud houses are cooler in summers and warmer in
54. When too much money is chasing to few goods, the winters as compared to brick houses because
situation is- ______.
(A) Deflation (B) Inflation (A) Mud is a good conductor
(C) Recession (D) Stagflation (B) Mud is bad conductor
55. Inflation exists when (C) Mud is good insulator
(A) There is general increase in the prices over (D) Evaporation of water causes cooling in summers
time. and sunlight co
(B) There are periodic decreases in the price level. 71. What happens to a liquid, when the vapour pressure
(C) There are continuous increases in the output equals the atmospheric pressure?
level over time. (A) The liquid cools (B) The liquid boils
(D) There is rise in the purchasing value of money (C) No change (D) The liquid evaporates
56. The branch of biology dealing with the study of 72. Name the high frequency radiation produced in
cells is known as- nuclear reactions and also emitted byradioactive
(A) Cytology (B) Histology nuclei that is used in medicine to destroy cancer
(C) Psychology (D) Physiology cells.
57. Which of the following cytoplasmic organelles are (A) Ultraviolet waves (B) Gamma rays
treated as Prokaryotic cells within the Eukaryotic (C) Light waves (D) X-rays
cells? 73. Every hot object emits-
(A) Mitochondria (B) Golgi bodies (A) X-rays (B) Visible light
(C) Lysosomes (D) Glyoxysomes (C) Infrared Rays (D) Ultraviolet Rays
58. Which one of the following is also called the ‗Power 74. The damage of the human body due to radiation (X-
Plants‘ of the cell? Rays or  -rays ) is measured in _______
(A) Golgi body (B) Mitochondria (A) Rems (B) Roentgen
(C) Ribosome (D) Lysosome (C) Curei (D) Rads
59. Which among the following bears smallest living 75. Indicate the correct arrangement for electromagnetic
cell? radiation in order of their increasing wavelength.
(A) Bacterium (B) Mycoplasma (A) Microwave, Infrared, Visible, X-Rays
(C) Virus (D) Yeast (B) X-Rays, Visible, Infrared, Microwave
60. The chemical used for destroying fungi in water (C) Visible, Infrared, Microwave, X-Rays
tanks is- (D) X-Rays, Infrared, Visible, Microwave
(A) Copper sulphate (B) Magnesium sulphate 76. The radiation initially produced in fluorescent tube
(C) Zinc sulphate (D) Nitric acid is ______
61. Which of the following group of organisms (A) Infrared (B) Ultraviolet
reproduce faster? (C) Microwaves (D) X-Rays
(A) Algae (B) Fungi 77. Gamma rays can cause ________.

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(A) Gene mutation (B) Sneezing 94. Which of the following is used as the logo of the
(C) Iodine (D) Sodium Chloride World Fund for Nature (WWF)?
78. Which of the following compound is non-polar? (A) Lion (B) Camel
(A) HCl (B) CH2Cl2 (C) Deer (D) Panda
(C) CHCl3 (D) CCl4 95. The headquarters of the International Red Cross is
79. An example of a covalent molecule is- situated in
(A) Potassium chloride (B) Sodium chloride (A) Paris (B) Hague
(C) Lead chloride (D) Carbon tetrachloride (C) Geneva (D) Vienna
80. Which one of the following has a covalent bond? 96. The first Earth Sumit was held at
(A) Calcium Chloride (B) Magnesium Fluoride (A) Buenos Aires (B) Rio De Janeiro
(C) Sodium chloride (D) Carbon Tetrachloride (C) Dar-es-Salam (D) None
81. ________ character of a bond between two atoms is 97. Which of the following international organisations
greater if the difference in their electro negativities does India disapprove of?
is lesser. (A) OPEC (B) ASEAN
(A) Polar (B) Metallic (C) CENTO (D) NAM
(C) Ionic (D) Covalent 98. Which country has assumed the presidency of G20
82. Which of the following is the weakest bond? for the year 2021?
(A) Covalent bond (B) Ionic bond (A) India (B) USA
(C) Metallic bond (D) Hydrogen bond (C) Italy (D) Sri Lanka
83. Landsat 9, which was seen in the news recently, has 99. Where is the Pine Island Glacier located?
been launched by which space agency? (A) The Himalayas (B) The Alps
(A) NASA (C) Antarctica (D) Greenland
(B) JAXA 100. Which organization has released the report titled
(C) ISRO World Drug Report 2021?
(D) China National Space Administration (A) WHO (B) UNICEF
84. Umlingla Pass, which was recently in news, is (C) UNESCO (D) UNODC
located in which state / Union Territory of India?
(A) Manipur (B) Ladakh
(C) Himachal Pradesh (D) Jammu and Kashmir PAPER-II
85. Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel prize for (REASONING ABILITY)
his work: 1. Instructions
(A)Evening songs (B) Morning songs In these questions, two statements followed by two
(C) Gitanjali (D) Gora conclusions numbered I and II have been given.
86. Meghanath Saha award is given for outstanding Decide which of the given conclusions logically
contribution in which of the following fields? follows the given statements disregarding
(A) Science (B) Literature commonly known facts.
(C) Public Service (D) Social Work Statements
87. The only Indian woman who became President of All buses are cars. All Scooters are buses.
WHO was Conclusions
(A) Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit I. No scooter is a bus. II. All cars are buses.
(B) Smt. Kamala Devi Chattopadhoaya (A) Either conclusion I or II is true.
(C) Dr. Sushila Nayar (B) Only conclusion I is true.
(D) Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur (C) Neither conclusion I nor II is true.
88. First Indian to make a speech in Hindi before the (D) Only conclusion II is true.
UN General Assembly is 2. Rakhi got engaged 10 years ago. Rakhi‘s present
(A) Lal Bahadur Shastri age is 5/3 of her age at the time of engagement. If
(B) A. B. Vajpayee the present age of Rakhi‘s mother is twice that of
(C) Lal Krishna Advani present age of Rakhi, then what was her mother‘s
(D) Morarji Desai age (in years) at the time of her engagement?
89. Which of the following countries is not a member of (A) 50 (B) 40 (C) 30 (D) 60
the ―Club of the Rich‖? 3. In the following question, from the given alternative
(A) UK (B) USA words, select the word which cannot be formed
(C) India (D) France using the letters of the given word.
90. To which country did the first Secretary General of SUSPENSEFULNESS
UN belong? (A) SENSE (B) FUELS
(A) Sweden (B) Norway (C) USEFUL (D) FULLNESS
(C) Austria (D) Burma 4. In the following question, correct the equation by
91. Which of the following is a military alliance? inter - changing any two signs.
(A) ASEAN (B) NAFTA 9 × 3 + 8 ÷ 4 – 7 = 28
(C) NATO (D) EEC (A) × and – (B) + and –
92. The strength of UN Security Council is (C) ÷ and + (D) × and ÷
(A) 11 (B) 13 5. If 4 * 5 % 3 = 8000 and 2 * 3 % 2 = 36, then 4 * 3
(C) 15 (D) 17 %3=?
93. The International Criminal Police Organisation (A) 432 (B) 1728 (C) 36 (D) 144
(INTERPOL) has its headquarters at 6. Select the related word from the given alternatives:
(A) London (B) Lyons Pencil : Lead :: Pen : ?
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7. A series is given, with one term missing. Choose the 99, 90.7, 82.4, ? , 65.8, 57.5
correct alternative from the given ones that will (A) 73.3 (B) 74.8 (C) 75.2 (D) 74.1
complete the series : 15. Select the odd number from the given alternatives:
E, H, L, O, S, ? (A) 74 (B) 83 (C) 92 (D) 23
(A) U (B) W (C) V (D) X 16. If 15@7=44; 5@9=28; 6@17=46; then what is the
8. Which of the following cube in the answer figure value of 17@4=?
cannot be made based on the unfolded cube in the (A) 36 (B) 42 (C) 40 (D) 49
question figure? 17. A series is given, with one word missing. Choose
the correct alternative from the given ones that will
complete the series :
Laugh, Alter, Melts, Realm, Muesli, ?
(A) Missile (B) Shall
(C) Alien (D) Rifle
18. In the following question, select the number which
can be placed at the sign of question mark (?) from
the given alternatives.

9. In the following figure, square represents Artists,

triangle represents Military officers, circle
represents collectors and rectangle represents (A) 43 (B) 49 (C) 59 (D) 71
Fathers. Which set of letters represents collectors 19. How many triangles are there in the given figure?
who are either military officers or fathers?

(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 32

20. If PROJECT is coded as KILQVXG, then how will
EGO be coded as?
(A) VPU (B) MJN (C) VTL (D) SGD
(A) F, C (B) D, E 21. In these questions, two statements followed by
(C) A, B, G (D) H, E, D two conclusions numbered I and II have been
10. Which answer figure will complete the pattern in given. Decide which of the given conclusions
the question figure? logically follows the given statements
disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements
No auditorium is hall. All theatres are halls.
Conclusions
I. No auditorium is a theatre.
II. All halls are theatres.
(A) Either conclusion I or II is true.
(B) Only conclusion I is true.
(C) Neither conclusion I nor II is true.
(D) Only conclusion II is true.
22. In the following question, from the given alternative
11. Pointing to the lady in the photograph, Namita said, words, select the word which cannot be formed
‗Her son‘s father is the son-in-law of my mother‘. using the letters of the given word.
How is Namita related to that lady? IMPROVEMENT
(A) Cousin (B) Aunt (A) ROPE (B) TRIM
(C) Mother (D) Sister (C) IMPORTANT (D) PROVE
12. If R+Z means R is mother of Z;
R-Z means R is brother of Z; R  Z means
23. From the given answer figures, select the one in
which the question figure is hidden/embedded.
R is sister of Z; R%Z means R is father of Z
Which of the following shows that S is maternal
uncle of N?
(A) N  F  M S (B) S  KF  N
(C) S M FN (D) N  K %S
13. Manasi, who is 7th to the right of Mahesh is 11th to
the left of Mangesh. Mahesh is 27 th from right side
of the row what is the position of Mangesh from left
side among 38 students?
(A) 28 (B) 30 (C) 31 (D) 34
14. A series is given, with one number missing. Choose 24. Which answer figure will complete the pattern in the
the correct alternative from the given ones that will question figure?
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32. If 5th march of a particular year is Friday, then

which day of the week will be on 15th November?
(A) Tuesday (B) Sunday
(C) Thursday (D) Monday
33. Ajay, who is facing exactly in south-east direction,
turns 45 degrees in anti-clock-wise direction, then
135-degree clockwise direction and then 90 degrees
in anti-clock wise direction. In which direction Ajay
is facing now?
(A) North-East (B) South-east
(C) East (D) North-West
25. In each of the following questions, you are given 34. If number 2 is in bottom, then which number is on
a figure (X) followed by four alternative figures top?
(A), (B), (C) and (D) such that fig. (X) is
embedded in one of them. Trace out the
alternative figure which contains fig. (X) as its
part (A) 5 (B) 3 (C) 1 (D) 6
35. Which of the answer figures is exactly the mirror
image of the given question figure when the mirror
is held at XY?

26. Direction: A large block/cube is painted on all six

faces and then cut into a certain number of
smaller but identical cubes. It was found that
among the smaller cubes, there were eight cubes
which had no face painted at all. (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 3
How many small cubes have exactly one face painted? 36. Directions: Study the following information and
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 16 (D) 32 answer the questions below:
27. If 7x1=12; 5x4=2; 6x4=4; then what is the value of Statements: 1) Some Parrots are birds
7x4 = ? 2) No bird is mammal
(A) 8 (B) 6 (C) 11 (D) 28 Conclusions: I. Some birds are parrot
28. A piece of paper is folded and punched as shown in II. Some mammals are parrot
the figure. From the given alternatives, indicate how (A) None follows
it will appear when opened? (B) Only I follow
(C) Only I and III follow
(D) None of these
37. Urmila and Qureshi are children of Tarun who is
brother-in-law of Priya. Urmila is niece of Sundar.
Priya is daughter of Rekha but Rekha is not father of
Priya. How is Rekha related to Tarun?
(A) Son-in-law (B) Brother-in-law
(C) Mother-in-law (D) Sister-in-law
29. Choose a figure which would most closely resemble 38. Sohalin's birthday is on Monday 29th May. On what
the unfolded form of Figure (Z). day of the week will be Saswati's Birthday in the
same year if Saswati was born on 17th November?
(A) Monday (B) Friday
(C) Wednesday (D) Thursday
39. Pointing to a woman, Nirmal sad, "She is the
daughter of my wife's grandfather's only child."
How is the woman related to Nirmal?
(A)Wife (B) Sister-in-law
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 1 (C) Sister (D)Data inadequate
30. In a certain code language, "STUBBORN" is 40. Choose the term which will continue the following
written as "VUTAAOSP". How is "SWEEPING" series:
written in that code language? QLR, JPD, RNU, GNC, SPX, DLB, __
(A) TIJOOHPJ (B) QFOLLSLO (A) ARE (B) AJA
(C) TIJNNOJH (D) TXFDOJOH (C) BTU (D) TRA
31. In a certain code language, "CASIO" is written as 41. In a row of girls facing north, Neha is 9th to the left
"3119915". How is "CITIZEN" written in that code of Niharika, who is 19thfrom the right end. If Nisha
language? who is 15th from the left end is 3rd to the left of
(A) 295629134 (B) 3192295614 Neha, how many girls are there in the row?
(C) 3912659214 (D) 3920926514 (A) 39 (B) 37 (C) 45 (D) 41

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42. Choose the correct water image of the question (QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE)
figure, from the given answer figures (assume that
51. If  and  are two zeroes of the polynomial
water is along XY)
25x2 -15x + 2, then what is a quadratic polynomial
whose zeros are (2a)-1 and 21 ?
(A) x 2  30x  2 (B) 8x 2  30x  25
(C) 8x 2  30x (D) x 2  30 x
 
52. If one root of a  5a  3 x 2  3a  1x  2  0
2

is twice the other, then what is the value of ‗a‘ ?

(a) 2 (b)  2
3 3
1
(c) (d)  1
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 1 3 3
43. Directions: Read the following information 53. Consider the following statements:
carefully and answer the question given below: 1. A = { 1,3,5} and B = {2,4,7} are equivalent sets.
If ‗C × D‘ means ‗C is father of D‘. 2. A = { 1,5,9} and B ={1,5,5,9,9} are equal sets.
If ‗C + D‘ means ‗C is wife of D‘. Which of the above statements is /are correct ?
If ‗C ’ D‘ means ‗C is daughter of D‘. (A) 1 only (B) 2 only
If ‗C – D‘ means ‗C is son of D‘. (C) Both 1 and 2 (D) Neither 1 nor 2
If A = { 1,2,3,4} and B = {x  N : x  5 } then
What will come in the place of the question mark, to
54.
establish that Q is the nephew of T in the
which of the following is true
expression: ‗Q ? R ’ S × T' ?
(A) + (B) × (C) – (D) ÷ (A) A  B (B) A = B
44. Mash : Horse : : Mast : ? (C) B  A (D) None of these
(A) Pig (B) Chimpanzee 55. A cricket club has 15 members, of whom only 5 can
(C) Cow (D) Monkey bowl. If the names of 15 members are put into a
45. Some equations are solved on the basis of a certain box, and 11 are drawn at random, then the
system. Find the correct answer for the unsolved probability of getting an 11 containing at least 3
equation on that basis. bowlers is
5 × 6 = 35, 8 × 4 =28, 6 × 8 =? (A) 7/13 (B) 6/13
(A) 46 (B) 34 (C) 23 (D) 38 (C) 11/15 (D) 12/13
46. Rupali is standing facing south. She walks 16km 56. What is the probability of getting a ‗nine‘ or ‗ten‘ on
straight, then turns left and walks another 13km and a single throw of two dice ?
turns right and walks 7km. Finally turns left and (A) 2/9 (B) 7/36 (C) 1/5 (D) 2/7
walks 9km to reach her office. Which direction is 57. A small store has five units of a new phone model
she facing now? in stock: two white, two black, and one red. Three
(A) West (B) North (C) East (D) South customers arrive at the shop to buy a unit each. Each
47. Direction: Study the following information and one has a pre-determined choice of the colour and
answer the questions given below: will not buy a unit of any other colour. All the three
M, N, P, R, T, W, F and H are sitting around a circle customers are equally likely to have chosen any of
facing the center. P is third to the left of M and the three colours. What is the probability that the
second to the right of T. N is second to the right of store will be able to satisfy all the three customers ?
P. R is second to the right of W, who is second to (A) 4/5 (B) 8/9 (C) 1/3 (D) 2/3
the right of M. F is not an immediate neighbour of 58. In a box, there are eight yellow and four black balls.
P. If three balls are drawn at random, what is the
Who is to the immediate left of R? probability that two are yellow and one black ?
(A) P (B) H (B) W (D) T (A) 1/16 (B) 28/55
48. Given interchanges: (C) 3/8 (D) 8C2/4C1
Signs + and x and numbers 4 and 5. Then check 59. The median of 7 integers 3, 3, 4, 5, x, y, -4 is 4.
which of the following is correct? Which of the following cannot be the value of x +
(A) 5 x 4 + 20 = 40 y?
(B) 5 x 4 + 20 = 104 (A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 13
(C) 5 x 4 + 20 = 95 60. A list of 9 natural numbers, in which 2 is the
(D) 5 x 4 + 20 = 85 smallest number, has two modes. The range of the
49. In a row of girls facing north, A is fourteenth from data of the list is 9. The mean, the median and the
the left and B is seventeenth from the right. C who largest mode of the list are equal. If 2,3 and 10
is third to the right of A is also sixth to the left of B appear once in the list, then how many such list (s)
in the row. How many girls are there in the row? is/are possible?
(A) 36 (B) 37 (C) 38 (D) 39 (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
50. Three of the following four are alike in a certain 61. What is the mean and mode respectively of the
way and so form a group. Which one that does not individual series 1,5,10,12,15, 15,18,20
belong to that group? (A) (13.5, 15) (B) (12,15)
(A) Day (B) Calendar (C) (15,12) (D) (13.5, 12)
(C) Date (D) Month 62. What is the greatest possible speed a train can run
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(A) 4 (B) 30 (C) 43 (D) 5 15%, then find the percentage increase or decrease
63. When asked for his taxi number, the driver replied, of the area of the rectangle ?
― if you divide the number of my taxi by 2,3 4,5,6 (A) 1% decrease (B) 2% increase
each time you will find a remainder of one, But , if (C) 5% decrease (D) 4% increase
you divide it by 11, the remainder is zero. You will 75. Circumference of the circle is 88 cm, If the radius of
also not find any other drive with a taxi having a the circle is seven- fifth of side of the square whose
lower number who can say the same‖. What is the perimeter is 10 cm more than the perimeter of the
taxi number ? equilateral triangle. What is the area of the
(A) 121 (B) 1001 (C) 1881 (D) 781 equilateral triangle ?
64. Which among 21/2, 31/3, 41/4, 61/6, and 121/12 is the (A) 25 3cm2 (B) 26 3cm2
largest ?
1 (C) 27 3cm2 (D) 28 3cm2
1
3 76. The ratio of Curved Surface Area to Total Surface
(A) 22 (B) 3 Area of Cylinder is 3:7. If the Curved Surface Area
 1 of the Cylinder is 3696 m2, find the height of the
(C) 4 4 (D) 66 cylinder.
65. What is the sum of all two-digit numbers that give a (A) 23m (B) 21 m (C) 27m (D) 29m
remainder of 3 when they are divided by 7? 77. Average weight of five persons is 51 kg and each of
(A) 666 (B) 676 (C) 683 (D) 777 them in different weights. If the average weight of
66. The integers 34041 and 32506 when divided by a heaviest and lightest persons is 52 kg and the
three-digit integer a leave the same remainder. What average weight of second heaviest and fourth
is n? heaviest persons is 48 kg, then find the weight of the
(A) 289 (B) 367 (C) 453 (D) 307 third lightest person?
67. Find the LCM of (p2 +2p -24), (p2 +4p -32) and (p2 (A) 63 kg (B) 48 kg
+p-30). (C) 32 kg (D) 55 kg
(A) p4 -5p3 +58p2 -152p -960 78. Ezhil invests Rs.4800 in a simple interest scheme at
(B) p4 + 5p3 - 58p2 -152p + 960 the rate of 15% per annum for x years. Hari invests
(C) p4 + 5p3 - 58p2 + 152p -960 Rs.7200 in a simple interest scheme at the rate of
(D) p4 -5p3 +58p2 -152p + 960 (x+14)% per annum for 2 years. If the total interest
68. Consider a sequence of seven consecutive integers. received by Ezhil and Hari is Rs.5472, then find the
The average of the first five integers is n. The value of x?
average if all the seven integers is: (A) 5 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6
(A) n 79. A, B and C started the business with the investment
(B) n +1 in the ratio of 4:5:2 respectively. After 4 months, C
(C) k x n , when k is a function of n added rs.1600 to its initial investment. At the and of
(D) n + (2/7) the year, the profit share of A, B and C in the ratio
69. 25,000/- is borrowed at compound interest at the of 12:15:7, then find the initial investment of A ?
rate of 3% for first year, 4% for 2nd year and 5% for (A) Rs.12800 (B) Rs.12000
3 rd year. Find the amount to be paid after 3 years. (C) Rs.12400 (D) Rs.12200
(A) 28,117/- (B) 28,118/- 80. Present age of Pooja is 40% more than the present
(C) 28,120/- (D) 28,119/- age of Sharmi and the present age of Ram is 25%
70. There are 10 stations on a railway line. The numbers more than the age of Pooja 6 years ago. If the
of different journey tickets that are required by the present age of Rahul is 22(2/9)% more than the
authorities is present age of Ram and the age of Sharmi after 12
(A) 10! (B) 90 (C) 81 (D) 10 years is 42 years, then find the present age of
71. Two alloys containing brass and tin are in the ratios Rahul?
3:8 and 4:3. If they are melted in equal quantities , (A) 50 years (B) 45 years
what is the ratio of tin to brass in the resultant alloy? (C) 40 years (D) 55 years
65 81. Ratio of the time taken by the boat travel 150 km
(A) 89 (B) against stream to time taken to covers the same
65 89 distance alone with stream is 5:1. If the speed of the
85 69 stream is 20 kmph, then what is the speed of boat in
(C) (D)
69 85 still water ?
72. How many kg of variety 1 rice costing Rs.52/kg (A) 40 kmph (B) 25 kmph
should mixed with 25 kg of variety 2 rice costing (C) 30 kmph (D) 45 kmph
Rs.58 per kg, so that he makes a profit of 25% on 82. Arav and Ravi starts travelling in same direction at
selling the mixture at Rs.67.5/kg ? 4 kmph and 7 kmph respectively. After 3 hours,
(A) 40 kg (B) 60 kg Arav doubled his speed and Ravi reduced his speed
(C) 50 kg (D) 70 kg by 2 kmph and reached the destination together.
73. 15 women can do a work in 18 days. If 16 women How long the entire journey last ?
started the work, after x days 4 more women joined (A) 2 hours (B) 4 hours
the work and completed the remaining work in 5.5 (C) 6 hours (D) 8 housr
days, then find the value of x ? 83. Train A crosses another train of the same length
(A) 12 (B) 10 (C) 16 (D) 14 moving in the opposite direction in 20 seconds. If
74. If the length of the rectangle is increased by 20% train A crosses a standing man in 18 seconds with
and the breadth of the rectangle is decreased by the speed of 72 kmph, then find the speed of train
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(A) 24 m/sec (B) 18 m/sec 95. The speed of the upstream is 10 kmph and the boat
(C) 16 m/sec (D) 12 m/sec covers 320 km along with steam in 16 hours. What
 sin2 x 
is the time taken by the boat covers 240 km ?
cos2 x 1 (A) 12 hours (B) 15 hours
84.
 cos
10
2x sin2 x
12
1
2  (C) 14 hours (D) 16 hours
(A) 0 96. The cost price of the watch is Rs. 2000 and the
marked price of the watch is 10% more then its cost
(B) 12 cos2 x  10 sin2 x  2
price. If the shopkeeper allows the discount of
(C) 12 sin2 x  10 cos2 Rs.260, then find the percentage of loss of profit.
(D) 10 sin2 x (A) 1% profit (B) 3% loss
(C) No profit no loss (D) 2% profit

 
85. The solution of the equation
x 2 1
97. Renu invests Rs.7000 in compound interest at the
2 5 x =0 are rate of 10% per annum in 2 years and Davi invests
1 2 x
Rs.4000 in simple interest at the rate x% per annum
(A) 3,-1 (B) -3,1 (C) 1,3 (D) -1,-3
for 4 years. If the David received the interest is
86. A box contain 50 medicines out of which 20% are
Rs.450 more than the interest received by Renu,
out of date. 3 medicines are to be given to a patient.
then find the value of x% ?
What is the approximate probability that he get one
(A) 10% (B) 12% (C) 15% (D) 18%
outdated medicine of three medicines to be given ?
98. A bag contains 60 balls marked 1 to 60. If one ball
(A) 0.38 (B) 0.40 (C) 0.42 (D) 0.50
is drawn at random , then what is the probability
87. A management institute has 6 senior professors and
that is marked with a number divisible by 7?
4 junior professors , 3 processors are selected at
(A) 1/15 (B) 2/15 (C) 1/5 (D) 4/15
random for a government project. The probability
99. Ratio of the ages of David to Rani after 2 years is
that at least one of the junior professors would get
2:3 and the ratio of the ages of Rani to kani 3 years
selected is :
ago is 4:5. If the sum of the ages of David, Rani ,
(A) 2/3 (B) 1/5 (C) 5/6 (D) 1/6
Kani and Mani is 56 years, then what is the ratio of
88. 2/5 of the voters promise to vote for P and the rest
the ages of Mani to Rani after 3 years?
promised to vote for Q. of these on the day 15% of
(A) 3:4 (B) Cannot be determined
the votes went back of their promise to vote for Q
(C) 3:1 (D) 2:1
and P lost by 2 votes. Then the total number of
100. A, B and C stared a business by investing Rs.30000,
voters is
Rs.40000 and Rs.60000 respectively. After 4
(A) 80 (B) 85 (C) 90 (D) 100
months , A invested Rs. 10000 more and after
89. Solve the equations 12x + 8y = 128 and 9x – 7y =
another 4 months, C withdraws Rs. 15000. Find the
161 to find the value of x and y.
share of C, if the total profit at the end of the year is
(A) 0,2 (B) 14,-5 (C) 9,2 (D) 3,-2
Rs.158000 ?
90. A boat can travel 24.5 km downstream in 42
(A) Rs.45000 (B) Rs.40000
minutes. If the speed of the current is 2/5 of the
(C) Rs.66000 (D) Rs.58000
speed of the boat in still water, what distance can
the boat travel in 27 minutes ?
(A) 11.25 km
(C) 17.6 km
(B) 15 km
(D) 19 km
PAPER-III
91. A vessels contains 80 litres of pure milk. From these (ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
30 litres of milk is replaced with water. The process 1. (Put the following words in an order to make a
is repeated one more time. Find the quantity of milk meaningful sentence :
in the final solution ? From/ with/ has not / he / an accident / last February
(A) 31.25 litres (B) 34 litres / which / recovered / met/ Sanjib.
(C) 29 litres (D) 27 litres (A) Last February with an accident from which he
92. A box contains 5 red balls, 2 white balls, 6 black has not recovered.
balls. If two balls are drawn out random, then find (B) Sanjib met with an accident last February from
the probability that both balls are either red or black which he has not recovered.
balls ? (C) Sanjib met with an accident from which he has
(A) 25/78 (B) 12/35 not recovered last February.
(C) 3/26 (D) 13/25 (D) Sanjib has not recovered from last February an
93. Karuna and Mahesh stared a business by investing accident which he met with.
in the ratio of 5:4. 20 % of total profit goes to 2. Make a complete sentence from following phrases :
charity and the remaining amount will be shared by In a bad temper –we must – in the morning – Mr.
both of them. If the share of karuna is Rs .25000, Dash – usually – bear in mind.
then find the total profit at the end of the year? (A) Usually we must bear in mind that Mr. Dash in
(A) Rs.55420 (B) Rs.56250 the morning is in a bad temper.
(C) Rs. 57890 (D) None of these (B) Mr. Dash bear in mind that we usually must in
94. Smallest angle of a triangle is equal to two third of a bad temper in the morning.
the smallest angle of a quadrilateral. The ratio (C) We must bear in mind that Mr. Dash is usually
between the angles of the quadrilateral is 3:4:5:6. in a bad temper in the morning.
Largest angle of the triangle is twice its smallest (D) Usually we must bear in mind that Mr. Dash is
angle. What is the sum of second largest angle of in a bad temper in the morning.
the triangle and largest angle of the quadrilateral ? 3. A dog is man‘s best friend. (In this sentence the
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(A) Predicative Nominative (C) much too difficulty (D) No error

(B) Predicative Adjective 14. The sentence ―She is still working.‖ means :
(C) Objective complement (A) She is not supposed to work, but she is working.
(D) None of the above (B) She is working longer than expected.
4. It rained last night. ―Rained‖ in the sentence is a/an (C) She is working because she loves working.
(A) auxiliary verb (B) stative verb (D) None of the above
(C) lexical verb (D) Inchoative verb 15. Which of the following groups of words is used to
5. A _______ verb can link with other verbs to form a express ―elaboration‟ in a sentence?
chain or series. (Supply with the correct one) (A) hence, thus, so
(A) Causative (B) primary auxiliary (B) likewise, just, as
(C) modal auxiliary (D) Catenative (C) again, in short, last
6. Padmini had not rarely missed a dance performance (D) additionally, moreover, also
or festival since she was eight years old. 16. The team‘s captain as well as his players
The error in the sentence is a/an : __________anxious. (Fill in the blank)
(A) Misplaced articles (A) is (B) are
(B) Misplaced adverb (C) were (D) have
(C) Wrong use of articles 17. They say they can teach almost anything in his
(D) Wrong use of adjective world. The passive voice of this sentence would be :
Directions (Q.7-12) : Read the following passage (A) It is said that almost anything in this world can
carefully and pick out the best answer out of the four be taught by them.
choices given in the questions that follow. (B) It was said that almost anything could be taught
Gandhiji recognised that while all men should have equal by them.
opportunity, all did not have the same capacity. Some (C) They say almost anything can d be taught by
had the ability to earn more than others But he believed him.
that those who had talent would be performing the work (D) They say anything almost will be taught by
of society if they used their talent wisely and well. them.
Gandhiji said that he would allow a man of intellect to 18. We feel that Destiny itself controls our actions. The
earn more and riot suppress his talent. But it was his view
passive of this sentence will be :
that the bulk of his larger earnings should go to the
common fund. Those with talent and opportunity would (A) It is felt that our actions are controlled by itself
find their fulfillment as trustees. Gandhiji extended this destiny.
concept of trusteeship to cover all fields of life. (B) It is felt that we are controlled by destiny itself.
7. Gandhiji never believed in (C) It is felt that our actions are controlled by
destiny itself.
(A) Social equality
(D) It feels that our actions are being controlled by
(B) Equality of opportunities
destiny
(C) Political equality
19. Find the erroneous part in the sentence
(D) complete equality in all respects
8. Gandhiji trusteeship concept is (A) I made him (B) to apologise
(C) for his rudeness (D) No error
(A) a philosophy
20. She bent _____getting married as soon as possible.
(B) applicable to social life only
(C) applicable to all fields of life (Fill in the blank with appropriate preposition)
(D) irrelevant today (A) on (B) up
9. According to Gandhiji, one can serve the society (C) over (D) of
(A) if one is talented 21. It is no use _____to persuade him. (Fill in the blank)
(B) if one used his talent wisely (A) try (B) trying
(C) if one earned well (C) to try (D) of trying
(D) if one worked honestly 22. I dislike _______smoking there. (Fill in the blank)
10. The title of the passage should be (A) his (B) him
(A) Gandhiji‘s character (C) himself (D) he
(B) Gandhiji‘s views 23. This paper intends _____fearlessly expose all forms
(C) Gandhiji‘s services of corruption and falsehood _____public life.
(D) gandhiji‘s philosophy (Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions)
11. The meaning of ‖trustee‟ is a (A) to, of (B) to, in
(A) person who has to hold his property in trust (C) to, for (D) to, from
(B) State official who executes will and trusts 24. Which of the following refers to ―A scolding-
(C) person having confidence nagging bad-tempered woman? ―
(D) number of trusts (A) Turbulence (B) Brawl
12. Gandhiji believed that a man of intellect should (C) Tom-boy (D) Termagant
(A) earn as much as he needs 25. Find out the antonym of the word ―FATAL‟ :
(B) earn for others, not himself (A) deadly (B) enlivening
(C) earn more and not suppress his talent (C) careful (D) lethal
(D) live on charity 26. Find out the synonym of the word ―IMBIBE‖ :
13. The guy did not lose heart even in the face of much (A) reject (B) eject
too difficulty. In this find the erroneous part. (C) emit (D) absorb
(A) did not lose heart (B) even in the face of 27. Select the wrongly spelt word :

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(A) Machinery (B) Stationery (A) The two statements are unrelated.
(C) Mystery (D) Rudimentery (B) They are related in the sense they deal with
28. The term ―The fourth estate‖ refers to : similar context.
(A) Dense forest (B) The press (C) They are not related and the second sentence
(C) A grave yard (D) Crowd has no similarity of context with the first one.
29. I will _______you next Sunday. (Fill in the blank) (D) None of these
(A) call on (B) call in 42. The past tense of the verb ―Husband‖ is
(C) call at (D) call for (A) Husbend (B) Husbanded
30. In spite of the efforts of all peace loving people, (C) Husband (D) It can‘t be used as Verb
world is still a far cry. Choose the one that best 43. Which of the following sentences uses articles
expresses the meaning of the underlined phrase. correctly?
(A) an impractical idea (B) an abstract ideal (A) I am looking for a book that is on racial
(C) out of reach (D) a long way off atrocities on Jews during World War II.
31. In the proverb ―Time and tide wait for nobody.‖, the (B) She had a late lunch today.
(C) I am going to the office by bus today.
phrase ―Time and Tide‖ refers to
(D) A son is son till he gets a wife, a daughter is a
(A) death (B) failure daughter for all her life.
(C) opportunities (D) moment 44. The Indirect speech of ……. He said to his son,
32. The phrase ―To draw the long bow‖ means :
"May you live long"!
(A) to make tall promises
(A) He told his son that he might live long.
(B) exaggerate
(B) He prayed that his son might live long.
(C) to make false claim
(C) He prayed, his son might live long.
(D) to make high bid
(D) He wished his son might live long.
33. The Police wrongly charged him _________murder.
45. What is the Passive form of ―Who can count the
(Fill in the blank)
stars in the sky?‖
(A) to (B) at
(A) By whom can the stars in the sky be counted?
(C) for (D) with
(B) By whom can be stars in the sky counted?
34. Which of the following words is same in meaning of
(C) By whom could the stars be counted in the sky?
the word ―JUNCTURE‖ (D) By whom could the stars in the sky be counted?
(A) Critical point (B) Period 46. In which of the following sentence ‗all‘ is used as
(C) Point of time (D) Developments noun.
35. Knowing the risk involved in the project, the
(A) All the birds flew away.
manager called off the project. (B) I have accomplished this task all alone.
(Identify the type of words/phrases which has been (C) He lost his all in speculation.
made bold in the given sentences) (D) All passed the resolution with one voice.
(A) Participle (B) Adjective 47. Which of the following option is correct?
(C) Gerund (D) Stative verb (A) Come here, said the boy,
36. I __________(wait) for two months by the time, I (B) Come here said the boy
received the reply. [Use the correct tense form] (C) ―Come here‖, said the boy-
(A) had been waiting (B) waited (D) ―Come here‖, said the boy.
(C) had waited (D) was waiting 48. Whichever option you select , you may not answer it
37. He is greatly admired for his __________behavior correctly. (identify the underline part)
(Fill in the blank) (A) Noun clause (B) Adjective clause
(A) decorous (B) decadent (C) Adverb clause (D) None of these
(C) decorative (D) decrepit 49. The pond abounds _____ fish. (fill in the blank)
38. A. The report ended on a _________note (A) In (B) with
B. They must take ___________steps to deal with (C) of (D) by
the problem. (Choose the option that best suits both 50. To err is a human____ to forgive is divine. (use a
the blanks) suitable punctuation)
(A) criticizing (B) huge (A) , (B) :
(C) positive (D) fantasy (C) ; (D) .
39. He was born _______a silver spoon _________his 51. The woman was carrying a ____ bag. (Choose the
mouth and was very proud of his wealth. (Fill in the option that has correct order of adjectives)
blanks) (A) Black small plastic (B) Small and black plastic
(A) with, in (B) with, over (C) Small black plastic (D) Plastic small black
(C) with, to (D) with, on 52. Sharon recently applied for ______ job in ______
40. If he had arrived earlier, we would have had time hotel in Iowa. Just yesterday, she received ______
for dinner. (Identify the type of Mood of the letter from them. She was asked to attend ______
Underlined part) interview on ______ Friday some time next month.
(A) Indicative mood (B) Subjunctive mood (fill in the blank using suitable articles)
(C) Imperative Mood (D) Conditional mood (A) a, a, a, an, a
41. Success at sport requires frequent physical exercise. (B) the, the, the, the, the
Academic achievement will not come without (C) a, the, a, an, no article
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53. Transform the given sentence by removing ―Too‖. (A) to set in action
The oranges are too cheap to be good. (B) to become uncontrollable
(A) The oranges are cheap and good. (C) to become inactive
(B) The oranges are cheap as well as good. (D) aggravate
(C) The oranges are very cheap good. 58. Select from the answer choices, the word that is
(D) The oranges are so cheap that they cannot be synonymous to ―Dimensions‟
good. (A) support (B) size
Directions (Q.54-61) : Read the following passage (C) importance (D) height
carefully and pick out the best answer out of the four 59. We cannot say particularly under which condition
choices given in the questions that follow. the authorities permitted him to participate in the
On August 15, 1947, India was granted Independence
bid.
from British colonial dominance. This was an event of
international significance. From this day onwards, the (Identify the type of clause)
Indian Union assumed a role in World politics that was (A) Adjective Clause (B) Noun clause
appropriate enough to modify the thinking of nations. (C) Adverb clause (D) Coordinate Clause
Concepts like non alignment, tolerance, non-violence and 60. They were in that company. Here ―in that company‖
peaceful co-existence were introduced by India into the is a/an ………..
international vocabulary. ―Our dreams concern India‖, (A) object clause (B) adverb clause
said we first Prime Minister of the country, Pt. Jawahalal (C) prepositional phrase (D) Noun phrase
Nehru, on the eve of achievement freedom, ―but they 61. The room is so hot that nobody can exist there. Here
also concern the whole world, for the world has become ―room‖ is a ……
one.‖ (A) concrete Noun (B) material noun
Mahatma Gandhi chose Nehru to become the first PM of (C) countable noun (D) Abstract noun
independent India. With his vision of unity of the nation, 62. Choose the antonym of the word EFFICACIOUS:
he became the architect of modern India. It was to be a (A) Useful (B) Skilled
federal state based on secularism – the commitment to an (C) Useless (D) Unskilled
Indian identity, which was above all races, castes, and 63. Choose incorrectly spelt word:
religions. It was a vision of extraordinary dimensions.
(A) Complacent (B) Forgo
Both Nehru as well as his daughter and successor, Smt.
(C) Ammoral (D) Ingenious
Indira Gandhi, were well aware that only a firm
64. Rising prices ___________ immediate measures.
anchorage in the Indian identity could unite the nation
and enable it to make an impact on the world. In these (Fill in the blank)
days of mutual interdependence, the western powers and (A) call on (B) call in
America cannot afford to ignore what is happening in (C) call at (D) call for
this region. It is possible that the fate of the Asian 65. Find the erroneous sentence.
democracies would one day be decided on the banks of (A) He, you and I are friends forever.
the Ganges. If India fails to remain a democracy, this (B) While driving he heard the news.
world trigger the fall of the whole of South and south- (C) He spent all his money in gambling and this
east Asia. That is why the Indian Prime Minister has to made him a beggar.
play a role that goes well beyond duties related to (D) Those who are wise do not waste their time.
internal affairs only. It is of international political 66. The phrase ―to caste pearl before a swine‖ means :
significance. (A) to give to a person a lesson
54. What made Pt Jawaharlal Nehru the architect of (B) to offer something valuable to someone who
modern India? does not understand its value.
(A) He assured independence for India (C) to offer timely advice to a person who doesn‘t
(B) His vision of the unity of the nation. appreciate it.
(C) Because he was the first Prime Minister of (D) to offer something valuable to someone that
India. can‘t understand its value.
(D) He wanted India to make an impact on the 67. Alexander was a great conqueror. Here ―a great
world. conqueror‖ is ___
55. Which of the following concepts have been (A) a complement of noun
introduced by India into the International (B) an adverb phrase
vocabulary? (C) a complement of verb
A. Mutual interdependence and democracy (D) None of these
B. Non alignment and tolerance 68. We should abstain _________ casting aspersion
C. Non violence and peaceful co-existence _____________the character of our colleagues. (Fill
(A) A and C only (B) A and B only in the blanks with the correct pair of prepositions)
(C) B and C only (D) All of the above (A) from, over (B) from, to
56. Which word in this passage is used to describe the (C) from on (D) from, about
phrase ―to live together with mutual tolerance‖? 69. To explain his designs the architect __________.
(A) non alignment (B) coexistence (Fill in the blank)
(C) secularism (D) anchorage (A) made (B) built
57. Which among the following words best describes (C) sketched (D) constructed
the meaning of the word „trigger‟ used in the 70. Match the fragments correctly :
passage? 1. Put the horse A. in the air

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2. to make castles B. black and white 84. Sachin is a very popular cricketer whom everybody
3. Know chalk C. from the cheese loves. Here ―very‖ is a/an ……..
4. To put down in D. before the cart. (A) intensifier (B) quantifier
(A) 1-B, 2-D, 3-C, 4-A (B) 1-D, 2-A, 3-C, 4-B (C) adjective (D) pre- modifier
(C) 1-D, 2-C, 3-A, 4-B (D) 1-C, 2-D, 3-A, 4-B 85. Being a girl student your information regarding your
71. She has chance of winning the election . Find out
position is a must. Here ―must‖ is a/an ……….
the errors and mention it belongs to ….
(A) modal (B) verb
(A) preposition (B) Article (C) noun (D) Adverb
(C) noun (D) verb 86. He was fined and jailed. This sentence can be
72. The term ―status quo‖ refers to :
rewritten as :
(A) No change (B) Reversal
(A) Both he was fined and jailed.
(C) Perks (D) Success
(B) He was either fined or jailed.
73. The books have been delivered so far, ________?
(C) Besides being fined, he was jailed.
(complete the tag) (D) He was neither fined nor jailed.
(A) have it (B) hasn‘t it 87. Which one is an incorrect sentence?
(C) haven‘t they (D) have not they (A) All of us belong to India.
74. She said it. She wished she could take it back. This (B) All of the boys belong to India.
sentence can be rewritten as : (C) All of those are hypocrites.
(A) As soon as she wished she said it back. (D) All that glitter are not gold.
(B) As soon as she wished to take it back, she said. 88. Everybody is the master of his own fate, ________?
(C) As soon as she said it she wished she could (Fill in the blank)
take it back. (A) isn‘t everybody (B) isn‘t he
(D) As soon she said as she took it back. (C) aren‘t they (D) is he
75. I will not trust you ____________ you prove 89. All‘s well that __________well. Complete the
yourself. (Fill in the blank) proverb.
(A) till (B) unless (A) plays (B) stays
(C) although (D) in spite of (C) ends (D) prays
76. The word ―about‟ in the sentence ―There was 90. Which of the following sentence uses adverb
something affable about him.‖ Is a/an correctly :
(A) Adverb (B) Adjective (A) He may fail because he works hard.
(C) Noun (D) Preposition (B) This disease is higher infectitious.
77. Walking slowly, I finally got to my class. The (C) Last night he returned lately.
underlined phrase is a/an _______ (D) She talks very politely.
(A) Participle phrase (B) Gerund phrase 91. I regret not coming to your party. In this sentence
(C) Infinitive phrase (D) Noun phrase the speaker means :
78. He is rather a mean man. The word ―rather‟ in this (A) ―not coming‖ is an action that was about to
sentence is an/a happen.
(A) Conjunction (B) Post determiner (B) ―not coming‖ is an action that has already
(C) Intensifier (D) Preposition taken place.
79. She has joined as ________S.P. (Fill in the blank) (C) He could not attend the party.
(A) a (B) an (D) He was not going to attend the party.
(C) the (D) No article 92. I wish you _______considerate. (Fill in the blank)
80. What is the word ―few‟ in the sentence ―Her few (A) were (B) would be
friends are not to be seen‟ called? (C) are (D) will be
(A) Quantifier (B) Adjective 93. ―If the plane had not been delayed I would have
(C) Post determiner (D) Amount word reached here in time for the function.‖ Begin the
81. Complete the series. great-greater-greatest; fast- sentence with ―Had‖
faster-fastest; ill (A) Had the plane not delayed, I will reach here in
(A) worse-worst (B) iller-illest time.
(C) More ill-most ill (D) No change in degree (B) Had the plane not delayed, I would have
82. Sanjib advised me not to go to school the next day. reached here.
(Express the sentence in Direct Narration) (C) Had the plane not delayed, I would reach here
in time.
(A) ―Don‘t go to school next day, ―Sanjib said to
(D) Had the plane not delayed, I had reached in
me.
time.
(B) ―Don‘t go to school tomorrow.‖ Sanjib said to
94. Write down the address lest you ________forget.
me.
(C) ―Don‘t go to school yesterday‖ Sanjib said to (Fill in the blank)
me. (A) would (B) may
(D) ―Not go to school tomorrow.‖ Sanjib advised. (C) should (D) shouldn‘t
83. He spends so …… time writing books that he has 95. She had more money than _______needed. (Fill in
……. time to go out. (Fill in the blanks) the blank)
(A) much / little (B) Many / less (A) was (B) were
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96. Find out the part that contains error…… 108. ]ß^ò icìj i{òZ ùjûA @[ð _âKûgòZ ùjùf ZûjûKê K’Y
(A) The new taxation rates
(B) announced by the government Kj«ò?
(C) are bound to effect the export sector. (A) bûhû (B) C_bûhû
(D) No error
97. My mother gave the beggar a shirt. Here ‗gave‘ is a (C) cû^K bûhû (D) @ûõPkòK bûhû
……… 109. gûÈúd cû^ýZû \òMùe IWÿò@û bûhûe iÚû^ ùKCñVò?
(A) transitive verb (B) Di-transitive verb
(C) finite verb (D) non – finite verb (A) _õPc (B) hÂ
98. Act of ________negligence are punishable. (Fill in (C) PZê[ð (D) @Ác
the blank)
110. ^òùcÜûq a‰ðcû^u c¤eê iVòKþKê ^ò‰ðd Ke?
(A) willing (B) wilful
(C) wistful (D) wishful (A) e, f, k - _ûgßðòK ]ß^ò
99. They called the boy stupid. The word ―stupid‖ refers
to:
(B) d, j - iõNhðú ]ß^ú
(A) subjective complement (C) A, G - @Mâ ]ß^ò
(B) objective complement
(C) direct object
(D) @, @û - ùK¦âúd ]ß^ò
(D) indirect object 111. ‘~ùgûfûb’ e i§òaòùz\ ^ò‰ðd Ke?
100. I will be back, weather permitting. The underlined
phrase is a/an ____
(A) ~g + fûb (B) ~gü + fûb
(A) Adverb phrase (B) Noun phrase (C) ~ùgû + fûb (D) ~ùgûü + fûb
(C) Pronoun phrase (D) Absolute phrase. 112. _eÆe iµKð[ôaû GKû]ôK _\Kê GK_\ùe _eòYZ
Keòaûe ^ûc K’Y?
(IWò@û ) (A) aòùghý (B) aòùghY
101. ù]Zþ, _òfûcûù^ Zêùc iaê Kò C¡Z! (ùeLûuòZ _\Uò
(C) icûi (D) KûeK
ùKCñ @aýd ^ò‰ðd Ke)
113. ‘MwûiÜû^’ ùKCñ icûi ^ò‰ðd Ke?
(A) iù´û]^ iìPK (B) bûa iìPK
(A) ZZþ_êeêh (B) ^òZý
(C) @ûkuûeòK (D) _âgÜiìPK
(C) \ß¦ß (D) @aýdúbûa
102. Zêùc ù~ùjZê Pê_þ ejòf, ùZYê cêñ KjòaûKê aû¤ ùjfòö
114. ÊeZªú bò©òK aý¬^ a‰ðKê ùKùZbûMùe aòbq
(ùeLûuòZ _\Uòe @aýd iÚòe Ke)
Keû~ûAQò?
(A) ùjZêùaû]K (B) KûeY iìPK
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) aòù~ûRK (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ
(C) 4 (D) 5
103. KòQò ùfûK _ee KêiôûeU^û Keò Lêiò jê@«òö (ùeLûuòZ
115. ùbûRòùe @eê@û ùeûùhA ùjûA[ôfûö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uò
@aýd _\Uò ùKCñ ùgâYúe iìPû@)
K’Y iìPû@)
(A) _eòcûY iìPK (B) iû\égýùaû]K
(A) aòùghý (B) aòùghY
(C) bûaaûPK (D) _\û^ßdú
(C) iað^ûc (D) Kòâdû
104. jeò Kû¦ê@Qòö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uò ùKCñ Kòâdû iìPû@)
116. @mZû I KUêZû c^êhýKê Kê_[Mûcú Keò[ûG? (ùeLûuòZ
(A) @icû_òKû Kòâdû (B) ù~øMòK Kòâdû _\\ßd Cq aûKýùe K’Y iìPû@)
(C) @KcðK Kòâdû (D) Cbd (L) I (M) VòKþ (A) aòùghý (B) aòùghY
105. ‘iõPd’ (Cq g±Uòùe aýajéZ @^ê^ûiòK ~êqûle
(C) iað^ûc (D) Kâòdû
ùKCñ aMðe iìPû@)
117. aòPû~ðý aòhde icÉ \òMKê @ûùfûP^û Keòaû CPòZö
(A) ‘Z’ aMð (B) ‘P’ aMð (ùeLûuòZ _\Uò K’Y iìPû@)
(C) ‘U’ aMð (D) ‘_’ aMð (A) aòùghý (B) aòùghY
106. IWÿò@û bûhûùe cûZâû iõLýû ùKùZùMûUò?
(C) Kòâdû (D) icÉ VòKþ
(A) 10 (B) 11 118. @iwZKê _é[K Keö
(C) 8 (D) 6 (A) ^M (B) cûZw
107. CyûeòZ ]ß^òKê eì_ûdòZ Kùf K’Y iéÁò jêG?
(C) Kê¬e (D) \ßò_
(A) fò_ò (B) a‰ð 119. IWÿò@û bûhûe @Mâ Êea‰ðKê ^ò‰ðd Keö
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(C) @û, @ (D) G, I (A) ^òMðêYú (B) ^òMêðY

120. ^òùcÜûq a‰ðcû^u c¤eê ùKCñUò aòaéZ ]ß^ò ^ò‰ðd Ke? (C) \êMðêYú (D) Cbd (B) I (C) VòKþ
(A) @û (B) @ 133. ‘LýûZò’
(C) A (D) B (A) @_LýûZò (B) KêLýûZò
121. ‘GùK÷K’ ùKCññ i§ò ^ò‰ðd Keö (C) ~gLýûZò (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ
(A) Êe (B) aý¬^ 134. ‘Méjú’
(C) aòiMð (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ (A) @Méjú
122. ‘M_i_’ ùKCñ _âKûe ~êMàg± iìPû@? (B) i^Üýûiú
(A) aú_eúZû[ðK (B) iû[ðK ^òe[ðK (C) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ
(C) icû^û[ðK (D) ]ß^ýûcôK (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ
123. gê\âcê^ò KòG? 135. ‘Gc«’
(A) aiôû \ûi (B) iûekû \ûi (A) ù~c« (B) ùic«
(C) akeûc \ûi (D) RM^Üû[ \ûi (C) ùZc« (D) icÉ VòKþ
124. aûKýùe KûjûKê aû\þù\A aûKý _eòKÌòZ ùjaû 136. ‘ùeû_Y’
@i¸a? (A) @ûùeû_Y (B) C_ôûU^
(A) K©ðû (B) Kcð (C) @ûùeû_Y (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VKþ
(C) Kòâdû (D) Cbd (A) I (C) VòKþ 137. ‘iKûc’
125. ‘ùa\c’ ùKCñ icûi ^ò‰ðd Ke? (A) ^òÃûc (B) Kûc
(A) ajêaúâ jò (B) Kcð]ûed (C) KêKûc (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ
(C) \ß¦ß (D) @aýdúbûa 138. ‘ieûM’
_âgÜ ^õ 126 Vûeê 140 _~ðý« aò_eúZû[ðùaû]K g± (A) eûM (B) aòeûM
^òeì_Y Keö (C) @^êeûM (D) icÉ C©e VòKþ
126. ‘ZòZòlû’ 139. ‘iZé¾’
(A) NéYû (B) ù_âc (A) aòZé¾ (B) Zé¾
(C) lcû (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ (C) KêZé¾ (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ
127. ‘ceê’ 140. ‘iµ©òò’
(A) @ùceê (A) @û_©òò
(B) ^òSðe (B) aò_©òò
(C) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ (C) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ
(D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ
128. ‘_âkd’ _âgÜ ^õ 141 Vûeê 150 _~ðý« _âZòg± iìPû@ö
(A) @_âkd (B) iéÁò 141. ‘_eòPd’
(C) kd (D) icÉ C©e VòKþ (A) Kòue (B) a^_âòd
129. ‘iêùaû¤’ (C) _e (D) ùeûMú
(A) @ùaû¤ (B) \êùaðû¤ 142. ‘\ò^cYò’
(C) ùaû¤ (D) icÉ C©e VòKþ (A) _âbûKe (B) iò§ê
130. ‘ù[ûWÿûG’ (C) ieòZ (D) Mòeò
(A) \êAUò (B) ùMûUûG 143. ‘ùNûUK’
(C) PûùeûUò (D) Zòù^ûUò (A) Zew (B) Zêew
131. ‘Kú©òòð’ (C) eiû (D) Z_^
(A) @_Kú©òòð (B) @Kú©òðò 144. ‘PòZâbû^ê’
(C) @^Kú©òðò (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ (A) Ne (B) `êf
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(C) @MÜò (D) _\à 162. ^òùcÜûq c¤eê Kcð aûPýKê ^òeì_Y Keö
145. ‘^òcÜMû’ (A) G _òfûUò ùcûùZ ajêZ KÁ ù\fûYòö
(A) ZUò^ú (B) LM (B) G _òfûUò\ßûeû ùcûùZ ajêZ KÁ ùjfûYòö
(C) ie (D) _êÃe (C) G _òfûUò c¤eê ùcûùZ ajêZ KÁ ù\CQòö
146. ‘c]ê_’ (D) GMêWÿòK c¤eê ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñö
(A) @kò (B) _âiì^ 163. ^òZû« \eò\â ùfûKUò gúZùe [eê@Qòö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uò
(C) _ò@e (D) PõPkû ùKCñ aòùghY ^ò‰ðd Ke)
147. ‘aâZZú’ (A) aòù]d aòùghY
(A) flàú (B) fZû (B) aòùghYe aòùghY
(C) iû_ (D) cdìe (C) KòâdûaòùghYe aòùghY
148. ‘gZ_Zâ’ (D) aòùghýe aòùghY
(A) iùeûR (B) C_ôk 164. ^\úUò @Zò ]úùe ajê@Qòö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uò ùKCñ
(C) ^kò^ (D) icÉ VòKþ aòùghYe ^ò‰ðd Ke)
149. ‘jûUK’ (A) Kòâdû aòùghY
(A) K^K (B) iêeùfûK (B) Kòâdû aòùghYe aòùghY
(C) aòaÊû^þ (D) icÉ VòKþ (C) aòù]d aòùghY
150. ‘MY^û[’ (D) @aiÚû aûPK aòùghY
(A) Agße (B) MùYg 165. ‘ù~CñMQ `kò[ûG, ùi ù`û_Wÿû iùjö’ (Cq aûKýUò
(C) ù\aZû (D) A¦â MV^ \éÁòeê ùKCñ ùgâYúe iìPû@)
_âgÜ ^õ 151 Vûeê 161 _~ðý« gê¡ g±Kê ^ò‰ðd Keö (A) iek (B) ù~øMòK
151. (A) cjZß (B) cûjZß (C) RUòk (D) cògâ
(C) cj©ß (D) cûjû©ß 166. ù~Cñ _\\ßûeû ]ûZêe Kû~ðýiû]^ aòhdùe RYû~ûG,

152. (A) iûYàûiòK (B) gûYàûiòK ZûjûKê K’Y Kêjû~ûG?

(C) hûYàûiòK (D) iYàûiòK (A) aòùghý (B) aòùghY
153. (A) eì_ûd^ (B) eì_ûdY (C) iað^ûc (D) Kòâdû
(C) eê_ûd^ (D) eê_ûdY 167. ‘jiòaû’ ùKCñ Kâòdû iìPû@?

154. (A) Êû]ô^ (B) Êû]ò^ (A) icû_òKû (B) GKK Kòâdû
(C) Êû]ú^ (D) Êû]ì^ (C) @KcðK (D) icÉ VòKþ
155. (A) _âZòù~ûMúZû (B) _âZòù~ûMòZû 168. ‘ùi jiêjiê Kû¦òfûö’ (ùeLûuòZ @icû_òKû KâòdûUò

(C) _âZò~MúZû (D) _âZò~MòZû ùKCñ ùgâYúe iìPû@)

156. (A) ^òjòZ (B) ^òjúZ (A) iµ^Ü iìPK @icû_òKû Kòâdû
(C) ^újòZ (D) ^újúZ (B) @iµ^Ü iìPK @icû_òKû Kòâdû
157. (A) c¤eûZâò (B) c¤eûZâ (C) i¸ûa^û iìPK @icû_òKû Kòâdû
(C) c¤eûZâú (D) c]eûZâ (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ
169. jiòù\aûö (Cq KâòdûUòùe ùKCñ Kâòdûe ijù~ûM ejòQò)
158. (A) ^òeûgû (B) ù^÷eûgý
(C) ^òeûiû (D) ù^÷eûiý (A) @cògâ Kòâdû (B) iûjû~ýKûeú Kòâdû
159. (A) _ìaûðjÜ (B) _ìaûjÙ (C) @icû_òKû Kòâdû (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ
170. iêc^ iwúZ gêYQ ê òö (Cq aûKýùe Kòâdû _\Uò ùKCñ
(C) _ìaûð jÙ (D) _ìaûjÜ
ùgâYúe iìPû@)
160. (A) cù^ûKÁ (B) c^üKÁ
(A) @KcðK (B) iKcðK
(C) c^KÁ (D) cù^ûüKÁ
(C) \ßòKcðK (D) @icû_òKû
161. (A) Zò~ýð K (B) Zú~ðýK
171. _âZòù~ûMúcûù^ _Wÿò@ûùe ]ûCñQ«òö (Cq aûKýùe Kâòdû
(C) Zò~ýð Kþ (D) Zú~ðýKþ
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(A) @KcðK (B) iKcðK (A) _â[cùz\ (B) \ßòZúdùz\

(C) \ßòKcðK (D) Kcð^êùjñ (C) ~[ûPòjÜ (D) aýaùz\
172. @û_Y, ùcûùZ iZ Kjê^ûjñû«òö (Cq aûKýùe ùMøY 184. ‘c\^ _ûYò ùaûjêQòö’ (Cq aûKýùe CùŸgý Kê ^ò‰ðd
KcðKê iìPû@) Ke)
(A) iZ (B) Kjê^ûjñû«ò (A) c\^ (B) _ûYò
(C) ùcûùZ (D) @û_Y (C) ùaûjêQò (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ
173. gòlK _òfûcû^uê KòâùKU ùLkûCQ«òö (Cq aûKýe 185. akVûeê aê¡ò ùagò @ûagýKö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uòe aòbqò
Kòâdû_\Uò ùKCñ ùgâYúe iìPû@) iÚòe Ke)
(A) \ßòKcðK (B) ù_âeYû[ðK (A) PZê[ðú (B) _õPcú
(C) iKcðK (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ (C) hÂú (D) i¯cú
174. ‘Kê¸Kûe’ ùKCñ g±ûakú iìPû@? 186. ‘^ùaû\d’ ùKCñ i§ò iÚòe Ke?
(A) ZZþicþ (B) Z\þba (A) Êe (B) aý¬^
(C) ù\gR (D) ùa÷ù\gòK (C) aòiMðð (D) i§ò ^êùjñ
175. KòQò ùfûK _ee ^ò¦ûùe @û^¦ _û@û«òö (ùeLûuòZ 187. ‘MêY PòùjÜ MêYò@û’ eìXÿòUòe C_~êq @[ð ^ò‰ðd Keö
_\Uòe @aýd ^ò‰ðd Ke) (A) _âZòbûe @^û\ûe (B) _âZòbûe ~[û[ð @û\e
(A) @ûkuûeòK (B) _eòcûY iìPK (C) MêYKê MêY@ò û PòùjÜñ (D) icÉu _âòd _ûZâùjaû
(C) icd iìPK (D) aòKÌû[ðK 188. _êùeû]û aâZPûeúuê _êeûY gêYûAùfö (ùeLûuòZ
176. ùMû_ûkaûaê aõPò[ûA icÉ iµ©òòKê aûõUòù\ùfö _\Uòe Kòâdû iìPû@)
(ùeLûuòZ _\Uòe aòùghY iÚòe Ke) (A) ^ûc]ûZê Kâòdû (B) ù_âeYû[ðK Kòâdû
(A) KòâdûR (B) KòâdûaûPK (C) @KcðK Kòâdû (D) @icû_òKû Kòâdû
(C) MêY (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ 189. jeòaõg GK CKôéÁ Mâ^Úö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uòe aòùghý
177. `^ò aûZýûùe aYòKþ gòlû^êÂû^e AUû _ûùPeò bûwò[ôfûö ^ò‰ðd Ke)
(Cq Kâòdû_\e Kûk ^ò‰ðd Ke) (A) RûZò (B) ^ûc
(A) @iµ^Ü @ZúZ (B) iµ^Ü @ZúZ (C) MêY (D) Kòâdû
(C) iû]ûeY @ZúZ (D) iû]ûeY a©ðcû^ 190. ‘MûfòPû’ ùKCñ g±ûakú iìPû@?
178. ]cð_\ ùKûYûKð c¦òee cêŠò cûeò[ôfûö (Cq aûKýùe (A) ZêKðú (B) _ûeiú
ùeLûuòZ @õg K’Y iìPû@) (C) @ûeaú (D) AõeûRú
(A) CùŸgý (B) aòù]d 191. hYàûZêe ùKCñ icûi iÚòe Keö
(C) aûKý (D) K©ðû (A) \ß¦ß (B) \ßòMê
179. ‘NìKûeò’ e @[ð ^ò‰ðd Ke? (C) @aýdúbûa (D) ZZþ_êeêh
(A) KûC (B) ùKûAfò 192. ‘aûùcZe’ ùKCñ i§ò ^òeì_Y Ke?
(C) cdìe (D) _lú (A) Êe (B) aý¬^
180. ‘_òZâûkd’ e i§ò ^ò‰ðd Keö (C) aòiMð (D) i§ò^êùjñ
(A) _òZû + @ûkd (B) _òZé + @ûkd 193. ajòUòe cìkeê Pìk ~ûG _âcû\ ejòQòö (ùeLûuòZ
(C) _òZâ + @ûkd (D) _òZâû + @ûkd _\Uòe KûeK iÚòe Ke)
181. ‘Bgßeu \ßûeû ùi ajêZ KÁ _ûAfûYòö’ (Cq aûKýe (A) KeY (B) @_û\û^
aûPý ^òeì_Y Ke) (C) @]ôKeY (D) Kcð
(A) K©ðé (B) Kcð 194. ‘_âZòRY’ e aûKýKê ^ò‰ðd Keö
(C) bûa (D) Cbd (A) I (B) VòKþ (A) RYKê RY (B) RYùe RùY
182. ‘gZ_\ú’ e @[ð ^ò‰ðd Ke? (C) _âZò@ùU RùY (D) _âZò @ùU RùY
(A) aòQû (B) aêXòÿ@ûYò 195. ‘^ûjó Zûjûe Zêùc ~ûjû _âcûY ùKøYiòö’ (Cq aûKýUò
(C) IWÿg (D) MûB aûKý _\aûPý ^òcò© Kûjûe @bûa ejòQò iìPû@)
183. ‘C\ûjeY PòjÜ’ @^ý ùKCñ ^ûcùe _eòPòZ? (A) @ûKûOþlû (B) ù~ûMýZû

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(C) @ûiò (D) ùKCñUò aò ^êùjñ

196. ZûKê aògßûi Keòaû @^êPòZö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uòe aòbqò
iÚòe Ke)
(A) PZðê[ú (B) \ßòZúdû 2. B; Suppose the present age of Rakhi=x years
(C) ZéZúdû (D) i¯cú According to question.

197. P¦â C\dùe KAñ `êf `êùUö (ùeLûuòZ _\ùe x  10 5  x

3
_âùdûM i¯cú aòbqò ùKCñ @[ðùe _âùdûM ùjûAQò  5 x  50  3 x
iìPû@)  5 x  3 x  50
(A) @]ôKeY KûeKùe 50
x   25
(B) bûùa i¯cú 2
Present age of Rakhi‘s mother=2x
(C) _âùdûR^ @[ðùe
= 2  25  50 years
(D) iû\égý-@iû\égý @[ðùe Age of Rakhi‘s mother at time of her engagement
198. Wÿûqe ajêùPÁû Kùf, cûZâ ùeûMúUòKê aõPûA _ûeòùf = (50 – 10) years
= 40 years
^ûjóö (Cq aûKýUò MV^ \éÁòeê ùKCñ ùgâYúe iìPû@) 3. D; There is only one ‗L‘ in the given word.
(A) iek (B) RUòk Therefore, the word FULLNESS cannot be formed.

(C) ù~øMòK (D) cògâ

199. bûMaZ \éÁòeê aûKýKê ùKùZbûMùe aòbq Keû~ûAQò
iìPû@?
(A) 3 (B) 4
(C) 5 (D) 2 4. D; Interchange × and ÷
200. ‘KòG ùiVûùe? jeòö’ (Cq aûKýùe Kûjûe @^ê_iÚòZ 9 × 3 + 8 ÷ 4 – 7 = 28
 9 ÷ 3 + 8 × 4 – 7 = 28
ejòQò iìPû@)  3 + 32 – 7 = 28
(A) K©ðû (B) Kâòdû  35 – 7 = 28
(C) Kcð (D) Cbd (B) I (C) VòKþ 5. B; 4*5%3=(4  5)3=8000
2*3%2=(2  3)2=36
Therefore,
EXPLANATIONS 4*3%3=(4  3)3=1728
6. D; Lead is used in pencil as writing material.
PAPER-I Similarly, ink is used as writing material in pen.
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. C;
7. D 8. B 9. C 10. B 11. C 12. A
13. A 14. C 15. D 16. B 17. D 18. B
19. B 20. C 21. B 22. B 23. C 24. D
25. D 26. B 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. B 8. D;
31. A 32. B 33. B 34. D 35. A 36. A 9. C;
37. A 38. C 39. C 40. A 41. B 42. A 10. C;
43. A 44. C 45. A 46. A 47. B 48. B
49. D 50. C 51. C 52. D 53. A 54. B
55. D 56. A 57. A 58. A 59. B 60. A
61. A 62. C 63. A 64. D 65. A 66. B
67. B 68. A 69. A 70. B 71. B 72. B
73. B 74. C 75. D 76. B 77. B 78. A 11. D;
79. D 80. D 81. D 82. D 83. A 84. B
85. C 86. A 87. D 88. B 89. C 90. B
91. C 92. C 93. B 94. D 95. C 96. B
97. C 98. C 99. C 100. D

PAPER-II
1. C;
12. C;

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26. B;
27. B;
7  1 2  12
5  4 2  2
13. B; 6  4 2  4
 7  4  2  6
28. D;
 Mangesh from left side=39-9=30 29. B;
14. D; 30. D;
STUBBORN
VUTAAOSP SWEEPING
12345678
15. D; Sum of every digit in each number is 11 except S (+1) → T (3) S (+1) → T (3)
23. T (+1) → U (2) W (+1) → X (2)
16. B; U (+1) → V (1) E (+1) → F (1)
15  7  2  44 B (-1) → A (4)
B (-1) → A (5)
E (-1) → D (4)
P (-1) → O (5)
5  9 2  28 O (+1) → P (8) I (+1) → J (8)
6  17  2  46 R (+1) → S (7)
N (+1) → O (6)
N (+1) → O (7)
G (+1) → H (6)
 17  4 2  42 31. D; Numerical value of corresponding letters.
17. A; Two letters of first word are present in the 32. D; No. of days between the given days = 26 + 30 +
second word. Three letters of second word are 31 + 30 + 31 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 15 = 255
present in the third word. Three letters of third word 255 divided by 7 (reminder) = 3
are present in the fourth word. Three letters of So there is 3 odd days. Now Friday + 3 = Monday
fourth word are present in the fifth word. Now, four 33. B;
letters of fifth word would be there in the sixth
word.
18. D; First Figure
(2 × 3 × 5 × 1) + 1 = 30 + 1 = 31
Second Figure
(4 × 2 × 3 × 6) + 1 = 144 + 1 = 145
Third Figure
(2 × 1 × 5 × 7) + 1 = 70 + 1 = 71
19. B;

34. D;
35. D;
36. B;
The triangles are
BGA,BGC,BAC,AHB,CBH,HGA,HGC,HCA,HAF,
HFD,HDC,HIF,HID,FEH,DHE,EID,EIF,EDF,
AFC,AFD,DCA,DCF
Thus, there are 22 triangles in the given figure.
37. C;
20. C;

Pairs of opposite letters

Therefore,

38. B; Odd days in each month is 3+2+3+2+3+2+3 = 18

= 14+ 4
4 days different from Monday so, Friday
21. B; 39. D;

22. C;
23. C;
24. A;
25. D;

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40. D; The alternate groups are in different series. QLR, 25x 2  15x  2  0
RNU, SPX are in one series.
25x 2  10x  5 x  2  0
Pattern for the first letter:
Q+1, R+1, S+1, T 5 x5 x  2   15 x  2  0
Pattern for the second letter: 5 x  15 x  2  0
L+2, N+2, P+2, R 1 2
Pattern for the third letter: x  ,x 
5 5
R+3, U+3, X+3, A 1 2
Hence, the next group in the series is TRA.   ,  Q
5 5
41. C;
New roots = 2 1   5 
2
5
 Nisha-left=15 2   
1

4
Nisha-Right=31
 Total =(15+31)-1=46-1=45 Equation
5 5 5 5
42. D; x2     x    0
43. C; 2 4 2 4
15 25
 x2  x  0
4 8
 8 x 2  30x  25  0
52. A; Let the roots of equation be  and 2  sum of
root
3a  1
 2     2
a  5a  3
3a  1
It's evident from the family tree that for Q's being a  3  2 .....
nephew of T, Q must be a son of T's sister R. a  5a  3
Therefore, only the symbol of '-' between Q and R Squaring both sides
can be placed here. Hence, the option C is correct.
9 2 
3a  12 .........i
44. A; First is a food for the second.
45. A; a 2
 5a  3 
2

Product of root
2
2a  a 
a 2  5a  3
........ii 
1
a2  
a  5a  3
Dividing equation (i) from (ii)
46. C; 9a 2

3a  1 2

a 2  5a  3
a2 
a  5a  3
2

2
1

9
3a  12
a 2
 5a  3 
9a  45a  27  9a 2  1  6a
2

26  39a
2
a
47. D; 3
53. C; From the definition of equivalent and equal set
we can see that ;
Statement 1 is true because the number of elements
in A = Number of elements in B =3
Statement 2 is true because ={1, 5, 9}  A and
{1,5,9}  B
54. A; Given: A = {1,2,3,4} and B = {x  N : x  5}
48. B; On interchanging + and x and 4 and 5 in (C),
we get the equation as
The set B can be re-written as b ={1,2,3,4,5}
4 + 5 x 20 = 104 or 104 = 104, which is true.
As we know that, if A and B are two sets such that
49. D;
every element of A is present in set B but there is
50. B; All others are parts of a calendar.
one element in B which is not present in A then A is
a proper subset of B and is denoted as A  B
51. B;
As we can see that, all the elements of set A are
present in B but we have 5  B but 5  A  A
B
Hence , option 1 is the correct answer.
55. D; So, the required probability is

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PI   PII  PIII 66. D; Let r be the remainder. Then 34041- r and 32506
  5

C 3 10 C 8 / 15 C11  C
5
4 
10

C 7 / 15
– r are perfectly divisible by n. Hence, there
difference should also be divisible by the same.
C11   5

C 5 10 C 6 / 15 C11 (34041-r) –(32506-r) =1535, which is divisible by
 1260 / 1365  12 / 13 only 307.
56. B; Expected number of outcomes = Total possible 67. B;
cases of getting ‗nine‘ or ‗ten‘ in a single throw of  
p 2  2p  24  p  6p  4
two dice = 4 + 3 = 7
p 2
 4p  32  p  8p  4
So, Probability  7
36 p 2
 p  30  p  5p  6
57. D; LCM  p  6p  4p  8p  5
58. B; Probability = Expensed number of outcomes   p 4  5p 3  58p 2  152p  960
Total number of outcomes
Total number of outcomes = Total number of ways 68. B; Use any 7 consecutive numbers to check the
answers.
to draw randomly 3 balls out of 12 balls =12C3
ways. n
1  2  3  4  5  3, average of 7 integers
Expected number of outcomes = Numbers of ways 5
to draw 2 yellow balls out of 8 and 1 black ball out is k  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  4. so k = n
of 4 =8C2  4C1 7
Hence Probability = 8C2  4C1  12C3 = 28  4  +1. Alternately, the average of the first 5 terms is
the middle term which is third term, and the average
28 of the first 7 terms is the middle term which is the
220 =
55 fourth term. Hence, it is one more than the previous
59. A; The median of 7 integers will be the 4 th average .
observation when written in the ascending order 69. D; Principal sum to be borrower = Rs.25,000
So, in increasing order the given data x or y should T
Amount when compound annually = P1  R 
be greater than or equal to 4 ecah
 100 
So, the sum cannot be 7
60. B; As the smallest number and the range of the list  Amount to be paid after 3 years =
are 2 and 9 respectively, the largest number in the 25,000(1+3/100)(1+4/100)(1+5/100)
list will be 11. Since the mean, the median and the =250  103 26/25  21/20
largest mode are equal , data in ascending order will =103  13  21 = Rs.28,119
be in the form of 2, 3, x, s, y, y, z, 10, 11, where x is 70. B; Correct option is B.
the smallest mode and y is the largest mode. The starting station could be any of the 10. And, the
2  3  2x  2y  z  10  11 designation could be nay of other 9. Total no. of
 y tickets required = 90
9
 2x  2y  z  26  9 y 71. A; Let the quantity of alloy be 77 = LCM (11,7)
2x  z  26 Amounts of brass are 3  77  21 and 4  77  44
y 7
7 11
As x, y and z re ascending order, the only possible 8
Similarly, amount of tin are  77  56 and
order triplets of (x,y,z) is (4,6,8) 11
61. B; Mode is 15 as it occurs twice. 3
 77  33
Mean is (1+5+…20)/8=12 7
62. D; It is the HCF of 65 & 95. Ratio of tin to brass  56  33  89
HCF of 65 & 95 is 5 21  44 65
Greatest possible speed 5m /min hence , option (A) is the correct answer.
63. A; The smallest number divisible by 2,3,4,5, and 6 72. C; CP of mixture =(67.5 100)/125= Rs.54
is their LCM (2,3,4,5,6) = 60
Thus the taxi number is of the form (60a+1) . The
only option that satisfies the condition is option (A)
and option (D). But as no other driver can say the
same about his taxi number the number has to be the
smallest.
64. B;

2 2  2 6 12  1612 ,3 3  3 4 12  8112 ,

1 1 1 1
 2:1
1 1

Total kg of variety 1 rice = 25  2 = 50 kg

4 4  4 3 12  6412
1 1 1
73. B; Total work = 15  18 = 270 units
Total work complete 20 women in 5.5 days = 20
6 6  6 2 12  3612  1212 ,  3 3 is l arg est
1 1 1
1 1
5.5 = 110
Remaining work = 270 – 110 = 160
65. B; Any number that gives a remainder of 3 when Required time = 160/ 16 = 10 days
divided by 7 will be of the form 7k +3. 74. B; Let initial Area of the rectangle = 100
Since we only need two –digit numbers, k will range
100  120/ 10085/100= 102
from 1 to 13 { where 7A.+3=10 and 7(13) +3=94}
Area = 2% increase
Sum of all these numbers = 133+7(1+2+….+13)
75. A; Circumference of the circle = 2  22/7  r
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88 = 2 22/7 r (20+x) = 36
Radius of the circle = 14 cm X=16 m/ sec
14 = 7/5  a 84. A;

Let A   sin 
a = 10 cm 2
x cos2 x 1
Perimeter of the square = 410 = 40 cm
Perimeter of the equilateral triangle = 40 -10 = 30  cos
10
2x sin2 x
12
1
2 
cm So, by column transformation on determinate C1 
Side of the equilateral triangle = 40 – 10 = 30 cm C1 +C2
Side of the equilateral triangle = 40-10= 30 cm
Side of the equilateral triangle = 3 a = 30 A   11 cos2 x 1 
Side of the equilateral triangle = 10c m  2 sin2 x
12
1
2 
Area of the equilateral triangle = C1  C1 –C3

A   00 cos2 x 1 
3
  10  10  25 3cm2
4  0 sin2 x 1

76. B; Curved Strafe Area of Cylinder = 2  rh 12 1

Total Surface Ara of Cylinder = 2  r(h+r) Therefore, A = 0

  0
According to question, 85. A;
2  rh/(2  r(h+r))=3/7 Since, x 2 1

  0R3  R3  R2
2 5 x
1 2 x
h/(h+r) =3/7
7h = 3h +3r x 2 1
2 5 x
4h = 3r 1 2 x

R =4h /3  1 6  15   x 3 x  6  0

And Curved Surface Area of Cylinder = 3696m2  9  3x 2  6x  0
2  rh = 3696
x 2  2x  3  0
2  4h/3h = 3696
x  3x  1  0
h2 = 21  21
x  1,3
h= 21 m .
77. D; Weight of third lightest person =x Thus the answer is A .
86. B; Outdated medicines = 20% of 50 =
51  5 = 52  2 + 48  2 + x
255 -200 =x 20
50   10
x = 55 kg 100
78. C; (4800  x  15/100) +(7200  2  (x+14)/100) = According to the data of the question , patient gets
5472 two effective or functional medicines and one
720x + 144x +2016 = 5472 outdated medicine.
X=4 Required Probability
79. A; Profit share of A, B and C = 4x  12:5x  12: 
40c210c1  39  0.397  0.4approx...
(2x4 +(2x+1600) 8) 50c3 98
(4x 12) /(24x+12800) =12/7 87. C; Probability = Expected number of outcomes/
24x +12800= 28x Total number of outcomes.
4x=12800 Total number of outcome s= The number of ways of
X=3200 selecting 3 professors at random from a total of 10
A‘s investment = 3200  4 = 12800 professors.
80. D; Sharmi = 42 – 12 = 30 years =10C3 = 120 ways .
Expected number of outcome = Selecting 3
Present age of Pooja = 30  140 /100 = 42
professors so that at least one of the junior professor
Ram = 125/ 100 (42-6) = 45
is selected.
Rahul = 1100/900  45 = 55 years The possible cases are,
81. C; Speed of the boat = x Case(1): Selecting 1 junior professor out of 4 and
(150/(x-20))/(150/(x+20))=5/1
Selecting 2 senior professor out of 6 =4C1  6C2 .
150/(x-20) = 5150/(x+20) Case(2) : Selecting 2 junior professor out of 4 and
5x – 100 = x+20
Selecting 1 senior professor out of 6 = 4C2  6C1.
4x = 120
Case (3) : Selecting 3 junior professor out of 4 =
X= 30 kmph
4C3.
82. C; Distance travelled by Arav in 3 hours = 4  3 =
So Expected number of outcomes= 4C1  6C2 +
12 km
4C2  6C1 +4C3 = 4 15 +6 6 +4 = 100 ways .
Distance travelled by Ravi in 3 hours = 7  3 = 21
Probability =100/ 120 = 5/6
km
88. D; Let there ware x voters in the city
Distance between both = 21 – 12 = 9 km
0.4x promised to vote for P out of which 0.6x voted
New speed of Arav = 4 2 = 8 kmph for Q
New Speed of Ravi = 7 -2 = 5kmph 0.6x promised to vote for Q out of which (15% 0.6x
Relative speed = 8-5 = 3 kmph = 0.09X) voted for P
Total time = 3+ 9/3 = 6 hours Therefore total votes P got = 0.4 x + 0.09 x
83. C; Speed of the train A= 72  5 /18 = 20 m/sec Total votes Q got = 0.06x – 0.09x = 0.51x
Length of the train A= 20  18 = 360 m But P lost by 2 votes  0.51  - 049x= 2
Length of the train B = 360 m  0.02x = 2
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 x= 100 SP = 2200-260 = 1940
89. B; 12x + 8y = 128 Required loss percentage =[(2000-1940)/2000] 
 3x  2y  32.......i 100 = 3%
9x  7y  161.......ii  97. B; CI received by Renu = 7000 (1+10/100)2 -7000
= Rs.1470
Multiply equation (i) by 3 and then subtract it from
CI received by David = 1470 +450 = Rs.1920
equation (ii)
-7y -6y = 161 -96 1920 = 4000  x  4/100
X=12%
 13 y  65
98. B; Number of marked balls divisible by 7 = 7, 14,
 y  5 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56
Putting the value of y in equation (i), we get Required probability = 8/60 = 2/15
3x – 10 = 32 99. B; Ratio of David to Rani to kani after 3 years = 4:5
 3x  42 David + Rani + kani + mani = 56
We cannot find the answer.
 x  14
100. C; The share of A, B and C,
 30000  4  4000  8 : 40000  12 :
Hence, x= 14 and y = -5
90. A; Let the speed of the boat in still water be x
km/hr, 60000  8  45000  4
 120000  320000 : 480000 :
Speed of the current =2x/5
Downstream speed = x+ 2x/5 =7x /5
Downstream speed in km/hr = 24.5/(42/60)= 24.5 480000  180000
(60/42)=35 km/hr
 440000 : 480000 : 660000
7x/5 = 35
X= 25 km/hr  22 : 24 : 33
Distance in 27 minutes = 25  (27/60) = 11.25 km 79' s  158000
91. A; According to the formula.
Quantity of milk left = 8 (1-(30/80))2 1' s  2000
The share of C = 33‘ s = Rs.66000
5 5
 80      
8 8 PAPER-III
 31.25 litres 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. D
92. A; P(E)=n(E)n(S) 7. B 8. C 9. B 10. B 11. A 12. B
Total probability = n(S) = 13C2 13. C 14. B 15. D 16. A 17. A 18. C
The probability that both balls are either red or 19. B 20. A 21. B 22. A 23. B 24. D
black balls 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. C
nE   5 C2 or 6C2 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. A 36. A
PE   C
5
2 
or 6C2 / 13 C2
37. A
43. B
38. C
44. A
39. A
45. A
40. D
46. C
41. B
47. B
42. B
48. A
PE   10  15  / 78 49. A 50. C 51. B 52. C 53. D 54. B
PE   25 / 78 55. C 56. C 57. A 58. C 59. B 60. C
93. B; The share of Karuna = Rs.25000 61. A 62. C 63. C 64. A 65. A 66. B
5‘s = 25000 67. A 68. C 69. D 70. B 71. B 72. A
1‘s =5000 73. C 74. C 75. B 76. D 77. A 78. C
Total share of karuna and Mahesh =9‘s = Rs.45000 79. B 80. A 81. A 82. B 83. A 84. A
(80/100)  Total profit = 45000 85. C 86. C 87. D 88. C 89. C 90. D
Total profit = 45000  (100/80) = Rs.56250 91. C 92. B 93. B 94. C 95. A 96. C
94. B; The ratio of the angles of the quadrilateral = 97. B 98. B 99. B 100. D 101. B 102. D
3:4:5:6 103. A 104. D 105. B 106. A 107. A 108. A
3x + 4x + 5x + 6x = 360 109. B 110. C 111. B 112. C 113. A 114. A
 18x = 360 115. A 116. A 117. B 118. A 119. A 120. A
 x = 20 121. A 122. B 123. B 124. D 125. D 126. B
127. B 128. B 129. B 130. B 131. D 132. B
Smallest angle of triangle =(2/3) 60= 40
133. D 134. B 135. C 136. B 137. A 138. B
Largest angle of the triangle = 2 40 = 80
139. A 140. B 141. A 142. A 143. B 144. C
Second largest angle of the triangle = 180- 40 -80 =
145. A 146. A 147. B 148. D 149. A 150. B
60
151. C 152. C 153. B 154. C 155. B 156. A
Required sum = 60 + 120 = 1800
157. B 158. B 159. C 160. B 161. C 162. B
95. D; Speed of boat = x
163. B 164. B 165. C 166. D 167. D 168. B
Speed of stream = y
169. B 170. B 171. A 172. C 173. D 174. A
x – y = 10 kmph
175. B 176. D 177. B 178. B 179. A 180. B
320/(x+y) = 16
181. D 182. A 183. C 184. A 185. B 186. A
X+y = 20
187. B 188. B 189. B 190. A 191. B 192. A
2x = 30
193. B 194. A 195. C 196. B 197. B 198. C
X=15 kmph
199. B 200. C
Required time = 240/15 = 16 hours
96. B; CP = 2000
****
MP = 2000110/100= Rs.2200

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PRACTICE SET
Upcoming Exam
OSSC-CGL
(PAPER-I & II)
PAPER-I
MATHEMATICS
(c) 18 kmph (d)20 kmph
1. Priya and Deepak started the business and the 8. The breadth of the rectangle is 40% of its length. If
investment of Priya is 25% more than the the length of the rectangle is decreased by 50%, then
investment of Deepak. After 12 months Sania joined the area of the rectangle is increased by 25%. Find
with the investment of Rs.2700. At the end of three the percentage increase of the breadth of the
years, the total profit of the business is Rs.17100 rectangle?
and the profit share of Priya is Rs.7500, then find (a) 120% (b) 250% (c) 180% (d) 150%
the initial investment of Deepak? 9. The marked price of article B is 75% of the marked
(a) Rs.3000 (b) Rs.3600 price of article A and the selling price of article A to
(c) Rs.4000 (d) Rs.4500 B is in the ratio of 1:1. The discount of article B is
2. Train A 400 m long is travelling at the speed of 54 33(1/3)% of the discount of article
kmph. Another train B is coming from the opposite A. If the selling price of article A is Rs.3000, then
direction and travelling at the speed of 81 kmph. It find the marked price of article A?
takes them 19.2 seconds to cross each other (a) Rs.4800 (b) Rs.5200
completely. If the ratio of the length of the train B to (c) Rs.4200 (d) Rs.4500
the platform is 8:5, then find the time taken by train 10. Every year the population of China is decreasing by
B crosses that platform? 10% compared to the previous year. In 2020 the
(a) 23.11 seconds (b) 25.33 seconds total population of China is 218700, what is the total
(c) 27.22 seconds (d) 29.18 seconds population of China in 2017?
3. The present age of Dhanush is 25% more than the (a) 320000 (b) 350000
present age of Siva. If the average of the ages of (c) 360000 (d) None of these
Dhanush, Siva and Aniruth is 31 years and when 11. A alone completes the work in 39 days and B alone
Aniruthwas born, the age of Dhanush is 5 years, completes the work in x days. If A works with 75%
then find the present age of Aniruth? of his efficiency and B works with 13/10 times of its
(a) 27 (b) 30 efficiency, then the whole work is completed in (x –
(c) 32 (d) 24 11(5/9)) days. In how many days B alone complete
4. A shopkeeper mixed two different qualities of oil, the work?
one costing Rs.60 per liter and the other is Rs.96 per (a) 26 days (b) 28 days
liter in the ratio of 3:2 and sold the mixture at (c) 31 days (d) 39 days
Rs.82.4 per liter. Find the profit percentage? 12. A Jar contains 150 liters of Milk. 10% of the milk is
(a) 7.75% (b) 8.75% taken out and replaced with the same quantity of
(c) 9.75% (d) 10.75% water. Again 30 liters of mixture is taken out and
5. A sum of Rs.5600 becomes Rs.8960 after four years replaced with the same quantity of water. Find the
at simple interest. If Rs.4500 is invested in quantity of water in the final solution?
compound interest at the same rate of interest for 3 (a) 48 liters (b) 45 liters
years, then find the compound amount received after (c) 40 liters (d) 42 liters
3 years(Approximately)? 13. Abhi, Priya and Deena started the business and the
(a) Rs.6800 (b) Rs.6700 investment of Priya is 50% more than the
(c) Rs.6600 (d) Rs.6500 investment of Abhi and the investment of Deena is
6. A alone complete the work in x days and B alone double of Priya. After 6 months, Abhi, Priya and
complete the same work in (x + 2) days and the Deena added Rs.1200, Rs.975 and Rs.1400
efficiency of B is 25% less that of C. If A, B and C respectively to their initial investment. At the end of
together can complete 75% of the work in 1(7/11) the year, the total profit of the business is Rs.4400,
days, then find the value of x? find the profit share of Priya?
(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 6 (d) 5 (a) Rs.1800 (b) Rs.1500
7. A boat covers 540 km downstream in t minutes. If (c) Rs.1200 (d) Rs.1000
the speed of the boat is increased by 20%, then the 14. Thilak invested Rs.x in a simple interest scheme at
time taken by the same boat to cover the same the rate of 15% per annum for 4 years and after 4
downstream distance is (t – 24) minutes. If the ratio years, Thilak received the interest of Rs.(x – 1560).
of the speed of the boat in still water to current is If Meena invests Rs.x in a compound interest
5:4, then find the upstream speed of the boat? scheme at the rate of 10% per annum for 2 years,
(a) 12 kmph (b) 15 kmph

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then find the total amount received by Meena after 2 probability that they are either in blue or green
years? colour.
(a) Rs.4719 (b) Rs.4724 (a) 5/21 (b) 1/132
(c) Rs.4712 (d) Rs.4729 (c) 9/22 (d) 7/22
15. The speed of the boat along with the stream is x 27. If the total numbers of students in class A, B and C
kmph and the upstream speed of the boat is (x – 18) is 20, 30 and 25 respectively and the average ages of
kmph. The ratio of the speed of the boat in still class A and C is 18 years and 21.6 years
water to the speed of the current is 4:3. Find the respectively. If the average age of all the classes
speed of the boat in still water? together is 18 years, then what is the average age of
(a) 15 kmph (b) 12 kmph class B?
(c) 10 kmph (d) 18 kmph (a) 12 years (b) 14 years
16. The shopkeeper sold the Battery at a loss of 20%. If (c) 16 years (d) 15 years
he bought the battery for Rs.900 more and sold it for 28. 8 years hence, the age of P and 3 years ago, the age
Rs.1800 more, then he gets a profit of 25%. Find the of Q is in the ratio of 4: 3. The product of the
initial cost price of the battery? present age of P and Q is 216 years. Find the present
(a) Rs.1400 (b) Rs.1000 age of Q?
(c) Rs.1600 (d) Rs.1500 (a) 20 years (b) 24 years
17. A train crosses a pole in 19.2 seconds and crosses (c) 18 years (d) 12 years
280 m tunnel in 36 seconds. Find the speed of train? 29. Rahul spends 12% of the salary on transport, 20%
(a) 60 kmph (b) 48 kmph on shopping, 40% on house rent and 50% of the
(c) 72 kmph (d) 80 kmph remaining on education fee. Now he left with him i
18. The average age of Kani, Rani and Vani is 37 years s Rs.2800. Find Rahul‘s salary?
and the average age of Kani and Vani is 42 years. If (a) Rs.30000 (b) Rs.20000
the ratio of the ages of Rani to Vani is 9:16, then (c) Rs.40000 (d) Rs.50000
what is the ratio of the ages of Vani and Kani after 3 30. A and B can do the piece of work in 20 days. B is
years? 25% more efficient than A. If C joins with them and
(a) 11:8 (b) 12:7 (c) 14:11 (d) 17:13 the work finished in 15 days, and then in how many
19. The perimeter of the rectangle is 88 cm. If the days C alone complete the work?
perimeter of the square is 18 cm more than the (a) 60 days (b) 40 days
length of the rectangle and the area of the square is (c) 45 days (d) 57 days
144 cm2, then find the area of the rectangle? 31. There is a water tank of capacity 2400 liters. Two
(a) 440 cm2 (b) 420 cm2 pipes P and Q connected with it, they can fill the
(c) 400 cm2 (d) 480 cm2 tank in 120 hours and 100 hours respectively. The
20. A pipe can fill a tank in 18 hours. Due to leakage in rate at which Q fills the tank is what percentage
the bottom of the tank, it takes 24 hours to fill the more/less than that of P?
tank. If the tank is full, how much time will the (a) 20 % (b) 25 % (c) 15 % (d) 30 %
leakage empty the tank? 32. A vessel contains the mixture of milk and water in the
(a) 60 hours (b) 72 hours ratio of 5: 4. If 36 liters of mixture is taken out and
(c) 42 hours (d) 48 hours then 10 l iters of water added to the remaining
21. If x + (1/x) = 2, then the value of x 99 + (1/x99) – 2 is mixture, now the ratio of the milk and water becomes
(a) -2 (b) 0 (c) 2 (d) 4 5: 6. Find the initial quantity of the mixture?
22. The expression (27+√756)1/3 +(27−√756)1/3is (a) 36 liters (b) 45 liters
equivalent to – (c) 63 liters (d) 81 liters
(a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 18 (d) 27 33. If the sum of upstream and downstream speed of
23. If the ratio of the marked price to cost price of TV is boat is 42 kmph. If the boat travels 80 km upstream
5: 4 and sum of the selling price of TV when i t sold in 4 hours, then find the time taken to travel 77 km
at the discount of 10% and 15% is Rs.4375, then downstream.
find the cost price of the TV? (a) 2.5 hours (b) 3.5 hours
(a) Rs.1500 (b) Rs.2000 (c) 1 hour (d) 4 hours
(c) Rs.2400 (d) Rs.3000 34. The volume of a cylinder is 38808 cm3 and the
24. Rahul invests Rs. 9000 in scheme A which offers height of the cylinder is 28 cm. Find the curved
simple interest at the rate of 15 % per annum for x surface area of the cylinder.
years and Sam invests Rs. 8000 in scheme B which (a) 3084 cm2 (b) 3328 cm2
2
offers simple interest at the rate of (x + 10) % per (c) 3572 cm (d) 3696 cm2
annum for 5 years. If the total interest received by 35. Two trains of equal length moves towards each
Sam and Rahul is Rs. 18000, then find the value of other at the speed of 40 km/hr and 50 km/hr
x? respectively. If they cross each other in 12 sec, then
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 7 (d) 10 find the length of each train?
25. Respective ratio of the incomes of Rajat and Prince (a) 150 m (b) 200 m
is 15:13 and respective ratio of their expenditures is (c) 250 m (d) 100 m
6:7. Rajat saves Rs.45000 and Prince saves 36. Esai started the business with investment of Rs.x
Rs.30000. Income of Amit is Rs.15000 less than the and after 8 months, Danisha joined with the
income of Rajat. Find the respective ratio of the investment of Rs.(x + 1500). At the end of one year,
incomes of Prince and Ami t. the profit share of Esai and Danisha is Rs.2550 and
(a) 10:9 (b) 12:11 (c) 11:10 (d) 13:12 Rs.1600 respectively. Find the value of x
26. A bag contains 2 red balls, 4 blue balls and 6 green (a) Rs.1200 (b) Rs.1300
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37. Mugesh lent Rs.10000 to Bala for 2 years and 50. The sum of the age of Rajni and Sneha is 42 years.
Rs.5000 to Sekar for 4 years on simple interest at After 6 years, the product of their age is14 times of
the same rate of interest and received total interest Sneha‘s age at that time. What is the present age of
as Rs.8000. What is the rate of interest per annum? Sneha?
(a) 10% (b) 20% (a) 32 years (b) 34 years
(c) 30% (d) 40% (c) 36 years (d) 38 years
38. Ratio of the cost price to marked price of the laptop
is 5: 6 and the selling price of the laptop is (REASONING ABILITY)
Rs.10800. If the shopkeeper offers a discount of
10%, then find the profit earned by the laptop? 51. Choose the correct alternative from the given
(a) Rs.300 (b) Rs.500 options that will complete the series.
(c) Rs.600 (d) Rs.800 TSR, QOO, NKL, ?
39. A train crosses a 400 m long platform in 42 seconds (a) KFG (b) KGI (c) HGF (d) HIF
and also crosses a man running in opposite direction 52. Complete the series.
at the speed of 20 kmph in 13.5 seconds. What is the 12A6Z, 24C4X, 36E2V, ?
speed of train? (a) 48GOI (b) 48G0T
(a) 40 kmph (b) 50 kmph (c) 4G80P (d) 4G8OT
(c) 60 kmph (d) 80 kmph 53. Four different positions of the same dice are shown.
40. If the length of the rectangle is 8 cm more than the Select the letter that will be on the face opposite to
breadth of the rectangle and the perimeter of the the one showing ‗X‘.
rectangle is 64 cm. If the area of a square is equal to
15 times the area of the rectangle, then what is the
perimeter of the square?
(a) 490 cm (b) 240 cm
(c) 250 cm (d) 640 cm (a) Y (b) B (c) A (d) C
41. A boy rows 500 m in 450 seconds against the stream 54. In the evening before sunset, Mitali and Abhinav
and returns in 6 and half minutes. What is his were talking to each other standing in front of each
rowing speed in still water? other. If the shadow of Mitali falls to the right of
(a) 2.4 kmph (b) 3.1 kmph Abhinav, then in which direction is Mitali‘s face?
(c) 4.3 kmph (d) 5.2 kmph (a) East (b) West
42. If a dice is thrown, then what is the probability of (c) North (d) South
getting prime numbers? 55. If Friday was the first day of a leap year, then what
(a) 5/6 (b) 3/4 (c) 3/5 (d) 1/2 would be the last day of the year?
43. If the income tax is increased by 19%, the net (a) Thursday (b) Saturday
income is reduced by 1%. The rate of income tax is: (c) Sunday (d) Friday
(a) 6% (b) 4% (c) 5% (d) 7.2% 56. What time is shown in the mirror if real time is
44. Find the greatest number that will divide 43, 91 and 8:45?
183 so as to leave the same remainder in each case. (a) 2:15 (b) 3:15 (c) 6:25 (d) 7:15
(a) 4 (b) 7 (c) 9 (d) 13 57. Choose the pair of words which expresses the same
45. A boat having a length 3 m and breadth 2 m is relationship as.
floating on a lake. The boat sinks by 1 cm when a Vitamin D : Rickets
man gets on it. The mass of the man is: (a) Vitamin C: Myopia (b) Protein : Kwashiorkor
(a) 12 kg (b) 60 kg (c) Vitamin K : Scurvy (d) Vitamin B : Goiter
(c) 72 kg (d) 96 kg 58. Choose the pair of words which expresses the same
46. In order to obtain an income of Rs. 650 from 10% relationship as
stock at Rs. 96, one must make an investment of: 543 : 888
(a) Rs 3100 (b) Rs. 6240 (a) 123 : 675 (b) 918 : 112
(c) Rs. 6500 (d) Rs. 9600 (c) 785 : 237 (d) 624 : 1050
47. Pipe A and B can fill the water tank in 6 hours and 59. Which two signs should be interchanged to correct
12 hours respectively. Pipe C can empty the water the given equation?
tank in 16 hours. Pipe A and C together and B and C 4 × 8 + 2 – 9 ÷ 8 = 15
together are opened alternatively starting with A and (a) × and - (b) + and ×
C. In how much time, the tank will be filled? (c) + and - (d) ÷ and +
(a) 12 hours (b) 12.24 hours 60. Select the appropriate water image for the given
(c) 13 hours (d) 16 hours question from the following options:
48. The salary of Ramki is 15% more than his expense.
Find 25% of his total salary, if the difference
between his salary and his expense is Rs.1200.
(a) Rs.2100 (b) Rs.2200
(c) Rs.2300 (d) R.2400
49. Rs.5000 becomes Rs.6000 in 3 years at a certain 61. Which one is different from the rest?
rate of compound interest. What will be the (a) 1627 - 630 (b) 2643 - 560
compound interest on the same sum at the end of 6 (c) 5211 - 140 (d) 1519 – 640
years? 62. Select the figure that does NOT belong to the
(a) Rs.7200 (b) Rs.4000 following group.
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(a) B (b) C (c) D (d) A

63. Binayak is brother of Princy. Sulekha is wife of
Gautam. Hemant is father of Gautam, whose wife is
grandmother of Princy. How is Hemant‘s wife
related to husband of Sulekha?
(a) C (b) A (c) D (d) B
(a) Wife (b) Mother
71. A man facing towards north, first moves 45° in
(c) Son (d) Daughter
anticlockwise direction then he turns 90° in
64. Statement : PentaCell Fuel Company has moved
anticlockwise direction. At last he turn 135°
Country B from a position of shortage to self-
clockwise. Now which side is he facing?
sufficiency in the Compressed Natural Gas.
(a) East (b) West
Conclusion:
(c) North (d) South
I. Previously Country B had to import
72. A lady said to Kasmira, ―Your mother‘s husband is
Compressed Natural Gas.
brother of my mother‘s husband‖. How is Kasmira
II. In this regard, Country B can soon become a
related to the lady?
foreign exchange earner.
(a) Daughter (b) Granddaughter
(a) Only conclusion I follows
(c) Niece (d) None of these
(b) Only conclusion II follows
73. Find the missing number in the series.
(c) Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow
7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 14, ?
(d) Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
(a) 19 (b) 15 (c) 13 (d) 16
65. In this question, two statements are given followed
74. If 7#6 = 84, 1#5 = 10 and 2#7 = 28, then find the
by two conclusions. Choose the conclusion(s) which
value of 8#4 = ?
best fit(s) logically.
(a) 64 (b) 36 (c) 12 (d) 40
Statements :
75. As per the given Venn diagram, ‗T‘ represents:
1) No lemon is orange 2) Some orange are apple
Conclusions :
I. Some orange are not lemon
II. Some apples are lemon
(a) Only conclusion II follows
(b) Only conclusion I follows
(c) Neither conclusion I nor II follows
(d) Both conclusions I and II follow
66. Which of the following diagrams correctly
represents the relationship between the following
classes? (a) Both Football and Kabaddi players
Frog, Cat, Algebra (b) Both Cricket and Football players
(c) Players who play football, kabaddi and cricket
(d) Players who play kabaddi and cricket but not
football
76. In a row of boys, Sangram is eighth from the left
end and Kabita is fifteenth from right end. If they
67. In a certain code, 'CLASS' is written as '13121919'. interchange their position, Sangram becomes 30
How is 'BLACK' written in that code? from the left. What is the total number of boys in the
(a) 1321112 (b) 1231112 row?
(c) 1213112 (d) 1321012 (a) 42 (b) 40 (c) 44 (d) 48
68. In a certain code, 'GROUP' is written as 'TILFK'. 77. Find the missing number in the diagram given
How is 'SIMPLE' written in that code? below.
(a) RHNKOV (b) HNRVOK
(c) HRNKOV (d) NHKONR
69. How many straight lines are there in the given
figure?

(a) 45 (b) 46 (c) 47 (d) 49

78. In a certain code, 524 means ‗are you alright‘, 785
(a) 13 (b) 17 (c) 10 (d) 9 means ‗you come shop‘ and 9271 means ‗we are at
70. Which pattern most closely resembles the following shop‘. Which digit represents ‗we‘?
pattern? (a) 1 (b) 9/1 (c) 7 (d) 9/4
79. In this question, two statements are given followed
by two conclusions. Choose the conclusion(s) which
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Statements : 88. A figure of transparent sheet with a pattern is given

1) Some statements are lines. below. Select the option that shows how the paper
2) Some stories are not lines. would appear when the transparent sheet is folded at
Conclusions : the dotted line.
I. No story is paragraph
II. Some statements are not story
(a) Only conclusion II follows
(b) Only conclusion I follows
(c) None of the conclusion follows
(d) Both conclusions I and II follow
80. which of the following diagrams correctly represents
the relationship between the following classes.
Boys, Player, Singer 89. From the given answer figures, select the one in
which the question figure is hidden/embedded.

(a) C (b) D (c) A (d) B

81. P is 6 km to the south of R. T is 4 km to the east of
P. Q is 10 km to the south-west of R. S is 3 km to
the south of T. Find the shortest distance between P
and Q. 90. Choose the alternative that best resembles the
(a) 12 km (b) 13 km (c) 7 km (d) 8 km unfolded form of the given cube.
82. Two different positions of the same dice are shown.
Select the symbol that will be on the face opposite
to the one showing ‗#‘.

(a) % (b) & (c) * (d) %

83. Select the appropriate water image for the given
question from, the following option. (a) B (b) C (c) D (d) A
Directions (Q.91) : In the question below is a statement
followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You
have to assume everything in the statement to be true,
then consider the two conclusions together and decide
which of them logically follows beyond a reasonable
84. Four children, Ansuman, Bandana, Puspa and doubt from the information given in the statement.
Tukaram are on a ladder. Ansuman is further up the 91. Statement : All types of Food Item X are neither all
ladder than Bandana. Bandana is in between Ansuman good nor all bad; each type has its own properties.
and Puspa. If Tukaram is still further up than Conclusion :
Ansuman, who is the second person from the bottom? I. Some types of Food item X we find are quite
(a) Tukaram (b) Ansuman good.
(c) Puspa (d) Bandana II. Some Food item X we find are not good.
85. Find the missing number in the diagram given below. (a) Only conclusion I follows
(b) Only conclusion II follows
(c) Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow
(d) Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
92. When Mangesh saw Hezel, he recalled, ―She is the
(a) 44 (b) 48 (c) 64 (d) 42 daughter of his father‘s mother‘s only son‘s wife‖.
86. Find the missing number in the diagram given below. How is Hezel related to Mangesh?
(a) Aunt (b) Mother
(c) Sister (d) Niece
93. In this question, two statements are given followed
by two conclusions. Choose the conclusion(s) which
(a) 61 (b) 67 (c) 73 (d) 89 best fit(s) logically.
87. Study the given pattern carefully and select the Statements :
figure that will complete the pattern given in the 1) All pig are animal
question figure. 2) Some animal are not bird
Conclusions :
I. Some pig are not bird
II. Some animals are pig
(a) Only conclusion II follows
(b) Only conclusion I follows
(c) Neither conclusion I nor II follows
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94. Which of the following cubes can be formed, when (a) aò_\ + Rûf (b) aò_Rþ + Rûf
the given figure is folded to form a cube?
(c) aò_{þ + Rûf (d) aò_\þ + {ûf
7. lcû KeòaûKê Azû -------ö
(a) ZòZòlû (b) fò_þiû
(c) aúbiôû (d) RêMê_þiû
8. ‘@ûKêõP^’ e aò_eúZ @[ð ^ò‰ðd Keö
(a) KêõP^ (b) _âiûeY
95. Six friends A, B. C. D. E and F are sitting in a row (c) ùLûfòùjaû (d) cê\âY
facing East. C is between A and E. B is just to the
right of E but left of D. F is not at the right end.
9. gê¡ g±Kê iìPû@ö
Who is at the right end? (a) ^òeì_cû (b) ^úeì_cû
(a) D (b) B (c) E (d) C
96. N is more intelligent than M, M is not as intelligent (c) ^òeê_cû (d) ^úeê_cû
as X. X is more intelligent than Y but not as good as 10. gê¡ g±Kê iìPû@ö
N. Who‘s the most intelligent of them all?
(a) M (b) Y (c) N (d) X (a) c¤ûjÜ (b) c¤ûjþY
97. A man is walking towards west. He walks 15m, then
turns left and walks 5m. Again he turns to his left
(c) cû¤ûjÜ (d) cû¤ûjÙ
and walks 10m. Finally, he turns to his right and 11. ùKøYiò _\ùe ùgh aû c¤iÚ a‰ð CyûeY Keû^~ûA
walks 5m. How far is he from the initial point?
(a) 5√5 m (b) 5√2 m
Zûjû CVûA ù\A _\e bò^Ü @ûKûe KeûMfû ùaùk
(c) 15√5 m (d) 25√5 m ùfû_ @le iÚû^ùe ùKCñ PòjÜ _ìaða©ðú @le C_ùe
98. Based on the analogy given, find the missing word
from the given options.
aùi I _ìaað ‰ðUò @ù_lûKéZ \úNð CyûeòZ jêG?
Faithful : Fickle ∷ Empathy : ? (a) Kcû (b) gúhðKcû
(a) Rapport (b) Warmth
(c) Discord (d) Pity (c) CùfäL PòjÜ (d) C¡éZò PòjÜ
99. In the following question, select the missing number 12. ‘@ZòaÁé ò’ e aò_eúZ @[ð iìPû@?
from the given alternatives. 9, 23, 50, 103, 208, ?
(a) 323 (b) 411 (c) 417 (d) 431 (a) Kcþ aéÁò (b) @^ûaéÁò
100. Which one is different from the rest? (c) @ÌaéÁò (d) jú^ aéÁò
(a) ABc (b) DfE
(c) LKj (d) BRe 13. ‘LUû’ e aò_eúZ @[ð iìPû@ö
(a) _òZû (b) còVû
PAPER-II (c) Zòq (d) icÉ VòKþ
(IWò@û ) 14. ^òùcÜûq _\cû^u c¤eê ùKCñUò ‘Rk’e _âZòg± ^êùjñ
1. ‘_ucMÜ’ ùKCñ icûi iìPû@? ^ò‰ðd Ke?
(a) Kcð]ûed (b) ZZþ_êeêh (a) C\K (b) _dü
(c) ^òZý (d) ajêaúâ jò (c) ifúk (d) ^úe
2. ‘@YIiûeò@û’ ùKCñ icûi iìPû@? 15. ‘Zêewc’ @[ð K’Y iìPû@?
(a) ^¬ ZZþ_êeêh (b) \ßòMê (a) iòõj (b) ùNûWÿû
(c) Kcð]ûed (d) @aýdúbûa (c) @MÜò (d) jûZú
3. _âùZýK aMðe _â[c, ZéZúd, _õPc a‰ðKê ùKCñ a‰ð Kêjû~ûG? 16. gê¡ò g±Kê iìPû@?
(a) @Ì_âûY aý¬^ (b) cjû_âûY aý¬^ (a) ù_øejòZý (b) ù_øùeûjòZý
(c) @ûgâòZ a‰ð (d) Chà a‰ð (c) _êùeûjòZý (d) _êejòZ
4. ÊeZªú bòò©òùe a‰ð ùKùZ bûMùe aòbqö 17. ‘bûfê ]eûAaû’ eìXòUÿ òe C_~êq @[ð ^ò‰ðd Ke?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (a) ùKøgkùe VKòaû
(c) 2 (d) 5 (b) ùKøgkùe R¬ûkMâÉ KeûAaû
5. ^òùcÜûq a‰ðcû^u c¤eê C_]ß^òKê iìPû@ö (c) ùKøYkùe @iêaò]ûùe _KûAaû
(a) K,L (b) Wÿ, Xÿ (d) icÉ VòKþ
(c) U, V (d) _,` 18. ‘@È, gÈ’ e @[ð ^ò‰ðd Keö
6. ‘aò_Rßûf’ e i§ò ^ò‰ðd Keö
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(a) ~ûjûKê ùl_Y Keû~ûG, ~ûjû jûZùe ]eò @ûNûZ 28. Why are you jumping down my throat? I wasn‘t
even in the house when it happened. ( Choose the
Keû~ûGö alternative which best expresses the meaning of
(b) ~ûjû jûZùe @ûNûZ Keû~ûG, ~ûjûKê ùl_Y the given underlined Idiom/phrase)
(a) Making a joke (b) Scolding me
Keû~ûGö (c) Forcing me to eat (d) Running away
29. We are looking forward to see you tomorrow.
(c) LŠû, ie (Choose from the alternatives for under lined
(d) icÉ VòKþ sentence which may improve the sentence)
(a) looking forward towards seeing
19. P¦âeê KòeY SeêQòö (ùeLûuòZ _\Uòe aòbqò iÚòe Ke) (b) looking forward for seeing
(a) hÂú (b) _õPcú (c) looking forward to seeing
(d) No improvement
(c) \ßòZúdû (d) i¯cú 30. Detailed plan of a journey. (choose one which can
20. Lûeùak cM] Rd Keò[ôùfö (ùeLûuòZ _\e KûeK be substituted for the given sentence)
(a) Travel kit (b) Schedule
iÚòe Ke) (c) Itinerary (d) Travelogue
31. Am I well? I speak well. Well! That‘s expensive!
(a) KeY (b) Kcð (Which part of speech are the bolded words?)
(c) @_û\û^ (d) @]ôKeY (a) adverb, adverb, interjection
(b) adverb, adjective, interjection
(c) adjective, adjective, determiner
(ENGLISH LANGUAGE) (d) adjective, adverb, interjection
21. Choose the correct sentence. 32. ―Don‘t touch it! Leave it alone!‖ I said. [In
(a) The teacher asked the student with a frown on reported speech this will be:…]
his face,to leave the room. (a) I asked not to touch it and leave it alone.
(b) The teacher asked with a frown on his face the (b) I told him not touch it but to leave it alone.
student to leave the room. (c) I told him not to touch it but to leave it alone.
(c) With a frown on his face, the teacher asked the (d) I said him don‘t touch and leave it alone.
student to leave the room. 33. Being tired he could not work anymore. (Rewrite
(d) The teacher asked the student to leave the room by using an adverb clause)
with a frown on his face. (a) He could not work anymore as he gets tired.
Directions (Q.22-23) : Find out which part of a (b) As he got tired, he could not work anymore.
sentence has an error. (c) When he got tired, he could not work anymore.
22. A bacterium can be considered (a)/ a type of plant, (d) He was tired; he could not work anymore.
secreting poisonous (b)/ substances into the body 34. Besides educating his nephew, he also set him up in
(c)/ of the organism they attack. (d) business. [This sentence could be written choosing
23. As a kind-hearted lady my grandma shows mercy the words….]
(a)/ to everyone yet she suffers (b) / in an incurable (a) Though he educated…
disease. (c)/ No error (d) (b) He not only educated….
24. After driving Professor Jones to the museum she (c) Not only he educated…….
dropped him at his hotel. (Begin the sentence with (d) As he educated…………
Object) 35. Find out the incorrect sentence below:
(a) After being driven to the museum, Professor (a) Every means have been tried.
Jones was dropped at his hotel. (b) These kinds of goods are for sale.
(b) Professor Jones was being driven dropped at (c) Ship after ship is heading towards the shore.
his hotel. (d) He made a list of things that were required.
(c) After she had driven Professor Jones to the 36. April is the hottest month of the year. (Begin with
museum she had dropped him at his hotel. “No other” and Rewrite the sentence).
(d) After she was driven Professor Jones to the (a) No other months of the year are as hotter as
museum she had dropped him at his hotel. April.
25. If I hadn‘t come along at that moment, Rahim (b) No other month is as hot as April in the year.
………… the one arrested instead of the real thief. (c) No other month of the year is as hot as April.
( Supply with a suitable filler ) (d) No other month of the year is as hottest as
(a) would be (b) could have been April.
(c) might been (d) may have been 37. ―The document was supposed to be typed by me‖ .[
26. The child looked up at her teacher, obviously afraid Change the voice ]
that she would further …. Her. (Fill in the blank) (a) The document supposed to type.
(a) revere (b) extol (b) I supposed to type the document.
(c) laud (d) chastise (c) I was supposed to type the document.
27. Students are asked to collate for an important (d) I supposed to be typed by me.
programme by the Principal. ( Choose one for the 38. Which of the following sentence is an incorrect one?
underlined word which expresses the meaning of (a) One third of the work have been finished.
the word ) (b) The percentage of successful candidates is less.
(a) Describe (b) Narrate (c) More cities than one were in ruins.
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39. Simran is looking for a loyal friend, not a ____. (Fill (a) Exercise Yudh Abyas
in the blank with the appropriate expression) (b) Exercise Ekuverin
(a) fair weather friend (b) dishonest friend (c) Exercise Winged Raider
(c) blind as a bat friend (d) best friend (d) Exercise Indra
40. I took a bath. 56. Tropic of cancer passes through which of the
I went to market. following group of Indian states :
[These two sentences can be rewritten as : …] (a) Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh
(a) Having gone to market, I took a bath. (b) Rajasthan, Jharkhand, WB
(b) Being taken a bath, I went to market. (c) UP, MP, Bihar
(c) After taking a bath, I went to market. (d) Odisha, Andrapradesh, and Tamil Nadu
(d) Took a bath, I went to market. 57. Who propounded the opportunity cost-theory of
International trade?
(GENERAL KNOWLEDGE) (a) Ricardo (b) Marshal
41. Veeragase is a folk dance form of which state? (c) Heckscher & Oblin (d) Haberler
(a) Kerala (b) Karnataka 58. The cost of one thing in terms of the alternative
(c) Odisha (d) Andhrapradesh given up is called
42. The Kalisindh Thermal power Station is located in (a) Real cost (b) Production cost
which of the following state? (c) Physical cost (d) Opportunity cost
(a) Haryana (b) Rajasthan 59. Young‘s modulus is the property of
(c) Himachal Pradesh (d) MP (a) Gas only (b) Both Solid and liquid
43. The Mehao wildlife Sanctuary is a popular habitat (c) Liquid only (d) Solid only
located in 60. A man presses more weight on earth at
(a) Manipur (b) Maghalaya (a) Sitting position (b) Standing position
(c) Arunachal Pradesh (d) Assam (c) Lying position (d) None of these
44. Who is to receive the 29th Saraswati Samman? 61. With increase of pressure, the boiling point of any
(a) Vasdev Mohi (b) Jhumpa Lahiri substance
(c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) R. K. Narayan (a) Increases (b) Decrease
45. Kelps is obtained from (c) Remains constant (d) Zero
(a) Algae (b) Marine algae 62. Which of the following phenomenon is considered
(c) Snail (d) Lichens responsible for Global warming
46. Athletes have lower heartbeat during normal (a) Greenhouse effect (b) Fire in coal mines
condition due to increase the size of (c) Dry forming (d) None of these
(a) Left atrium (b) Left Ventricle 63. The nuclear particle which are assumed to hold the
(c) Right Atrium (d) Right Ventricle nucleus together are
47. ―Super male‖ has the chromosome (a) Electrons (b) Positrons
(a) XXY (b) YYY (c) Neutrons (d) Mesons
(c) XYY (d) XY 64. The metal that is used as a catalyst in the
48. The members of the UPSC are appointed by the hydrogenation of oils is
________ for the term of ______ years. (a) Ni (b) Pb
(a) PM, 6 years (b) President, 6 years (c) Cu (d) Pt
(c) President, 5 years (d) Home minister, 6 years 65. Where was the International Conclave on
49. Civil Services day is observed on Globalising Indian Thought held?
(a) 23 April (b) 21 July (a) Kochin (b) Kozhikode
(c) 4 November (d) 21 April (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Thrissur
50. Which Article of Indian Constitution Protects the 66. Who were the first kings to issue gold coins in
Civil Servants from the politically motivated or India?
vindictive action? (a) Mauryas (b) Indo-Greeks
(a) Article – 109 (b) Article – 19 (c) Guptas (d) Kushans
(c) Article – 311 (d) None of these 67. ‗Khalsa‘ was founded by
51. Who was the first Muslim Invader in India? (a) Guru Gobind Singh (b) Guru Ramdas
(a) Muhmmad of Ghazni (c) Guru Nanak (d) Arjun Dev
(b) Iltutmis 68. Who represented India in the Second Round Table
(c) Muhmmad Ghori Conference?
(d) Muhmmad – bin - Qasim (a) Aruna Asaf Ali (b) Sucheta Kripalani
52. First – Indian ruler use rocket artillery in war was (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Kalpana Joshi
(a) Hyder Ali (b) Tipu Sultan 69. The first General Secretary of the Indian National
(c) Aurangzeb (d) Babar Congress was
53. Which Governor General of India founded the (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) A.O. Hume
postal service in India? (c) Feroz shah Mehta (d) Badruddin Tyabji
(a) Robert Clive (b) Lord Dalhousie 70. Which one of the following rivers forms an estuary?
(c) Robert badra (d) None of these (a) Ganga (b) Tapti
54. Which of the following rivers does not flow into the (c) Godavari (d) Mahanadi
Arabian Sea? 71. Earthquakes are caused by
(a) Tungabhadra (b) Sabarmati (a) Denudation (b) Tectonism
(c) Mandovi (d) Narmada (c) Earth revolution (d) Earth rotation
55. Which of the following is the Indian Army's biggest 72. Which one of the following river flows through a
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(a) Godavari (b) Narmada (c) Spacball (d) All of the mentioned
(c) Krishna (d) Mahanadi 87. How many Gigabyte of information a Digital
73. Who is the competent to dissolve the Parliament? Versatile Disk (DVD) can store?
(a) The President (a) 4.6 (b) 5.6
(b) The Cabinet with the concurrence of the (c) 6.6 (d) 7.6
Leader of the Opposition 88. Which of the following defines the term
(c) By resolution in both Houses of Parliament Modularization correctly?
(d) None of these (a) It is a program where instructions are modules.
74. A Presidential Ordinance can remain in force (b) It is a technique where software is divided into
(a) For three months (b) For six months modules.
(c) For nine months (d) Indefinitely (c) A module is a separate software component.
75. A Bill is certified as Money Bill in Lok Sabha by (d) Both b and c
(a) The President (b) The Finance Minister 89. Which of the following has the shell as an exclusive
(c) The Prime Minister (d) The Speaker feature?
76. The instrument that measures and records the (a) DOS (b) UNIX
relative humidity of air is (c) System Software (d) Linux
(a) Hydrometer (b) Hygrometer 90. What is the name given to the skilled and trained
(c) Lactometer (d) Barometer professional who directs all activities related to an
77. Electrostatic precipitator is used to control the organization‘s database?
pollution of (a) System Administrator
(a) Air (b) Water (b) System Manager
(c) Noise (d) Thermal (c) Database administrator
78. Pycnometer is an instrument used to measure the (d) Database Manager
(a) Density 91. Which of the following are the examples of
(b) Intensity of solar radiation ORDBMS?
(c) Intensity of earthquake (a) Postgre SQL (b) Green plum
(d) High temperatures (c) SQL Server (d) All of the above
79. What is the chemical name for ‗baking soda‘? 92. Which of the following is used to represent a Weak
(a) Sodium carbonate (b) Sodium bicarbonate entity set?
(c) Sodium nitrite (d) Sodium nitrate (a) Line (b) Diamond
80. What is the element required for solar energy (c) Double Diamond (d) Double Rectangle
conversion? 93. What does the number ‘10‘ depict in 10BASE-T?
(a) Beryllium (b) Tantalum (a) 10 Kbps (b) 10 Mbps
(c) Silicon (d) Ultra pure carbon (c) 10 Gbps (d) 10 Tbps
94. Which of these is known as the first search engine?
(COMPUTER AWARENESS) (a) Archie (b) WAIS
81. What is the name of the digital circuit that performs (c) Gopher (d) Google
arithmetic and logical operations in computers? 95. Which of this MS Office product is DBMS
(a) Arithmetic Logic Unit software?
(b) Digital comparator (a) MS Word (b) MS Outlook
(c) Multiplexer (c) MS Access (d) MS Business
(d) None of these 96. What is the attack called where the hackers look for
82. Structured programming languages such as C, insecure websites and plant a malicious script into
COBOL and FORTRAN were used in which of the the source code?
following computers? (a) Drive-by attack (b) IP Spoofing
(a) First-generation (c) Phishing (d) none of the above
(b) Second-generation 97. Which of these was the split off version of
(c) Third-Generation ARPANET for the military use?
(d) Fourth Generation Computers (a) MILNET (b) DEFNET
83. Which of the following devices incorporated a (c) MILTECH (d) USDEFNET
mechanical calendar computer? 98. Which of the following internet connections serves
(a) Astrolabe (b) Gear-wheels only textual matter of a web page?
(c) Abacus (d) Gear-train (a) Shell connection (b) TCP/IP connection
84. Which of the following is not an arithmetic (c) ISDN (d) All of the above
capability of a computer? 99. Which port is used by HTTP?
(a) Addition and Subtraction (a) 443 (b) 80 (c) 22 (d) 79
(b) Calculation 100. Which of these protocols is used for monitoring
(c) Copy and Paste networks and network components?
(d) All of the above (a) POP3 (b) TCP
85. The most common method of entering text and (c) SNMP (d) HTTP
numerical data into a computer system is through
the use of which of the following? EXPLANATIONS
(a) Plotter (b) Scanner
(c) Printer (d) Keyboard PAPER-I
86. Which of the following is used for 3D positioning 1. a; Investment of Priya and Deepak= 125x:100x =
and modeling, animation and other application? 5x:4x
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Profit share of Priya and Deepak and Sania = 5x 1/52 + 13/10x = 9/(9x – 104)
3:4x  3:2700  2 1/52 = 9/(9x – 104) – 13/10x
= 15x:12x:5400 1/52 = (90x – 117x + 1352)/(90x2 – 1040x)
15x/(27x + 5400) = 7500/17100 90x2 - 1040x = 52(1352-27x)
135x + 27000 = 171x 90x2 + 364x = 70304
x = 750 x = 26(neglecting negative values)
Initial investment of Deepak= 750  4 = Rs.3000 12. d; 10% of mixture = 10/100  150 = 15
2. a; Length of train B = x Quantity of milk in resultant mixture = 150  (1 –
x + 400 = (54 + 81)  5/18  19.2 15/150)  (1 – 30/150)
x = 320 = 108 liters
Length of platform = 5/8  320 = 200 m Required Quantity of water = 150 – 108 = 42 liters
time = (320 + 200)/(815/18) = 23.11 seconds 13. c; Investment ratio of Abhi, Priya and Deena =
3. b; Siva = 4x 100:150:300 = 2:3:6
Dhanush = 4x  125/100 = 5x Dhanush – Aniruth = Profit ratio of Abhi, Priya and Deena = (2x  6 +
5 Aniruth = 5x – 5 (2x + 1200)  6):(3x  6 + (3x + 975) 6):(6x  6 +
4x + 5x + 5x – 5 = 313 (6x + 1400)  6)
14x = 98 = 24x + 7200:36x + 5850:72x + 8400
x=7 Profit share of Priya = (36x + 5850)/(132x +
Present age of Aniruth = 5  7 – 5 = 30 21450)  4400
4. d; CP of mixture = (60  3 + 96 2)/5 = Rs.74.4 = 18(2x + 325)/66(2x + 325)  4400
Required % = (82.4 – 74.4)/74.4  100 = 1200
= 10.75% 14. a; x - 1560 = x  15  4/100
5. a; 8960 – 5600 = 5600  4  R/100 5x – 7800 = 3x
R = 15% x = 3900
CA = 4500  (1 + 15/100)3 CA = 3900  (1 + 10/100)2
= Rs.6843.9375 = Rs.4719
6. c; A = 1/x 15. b; Speed of current = (x – (x – 18))/2 = 9
B = 1/(x + 2) Speed of boat = 9  4/3 = 12
C = 1/(x+2)  100/75 = 4/3(x+2) 16. d; Initial CP = 5x
Time taken to complete the whole work by A, B and Initial SP = 5x  80/100 = 4x
C together= 100/75  (18/11) = 24/11 (4x + 1800) = 125/100  (5x + 900)
1/x + 1/(x + 2) + 4/3(x + 2) = 11/24 16x + 7200 = 25x + 4500
(3x + 6 + 3x + 4x)/(3x  (x + 2)) = 11/24 x = 300
240x + 144 = 33x2 + 66x CP of the battery = 300  5 = 1500
11x2 – 58x – 48 = 0 17. a; Length of train = x
x = 6 (neglecting negative values) Speed of train = y
7. b; Speed of boat = 5x x = y  5/18  19.2
Speed of current = 4x x = 16y/3
540/(9x) – 540/(5x  120/100 + 4x) = 24/60 x = 15 x + 280 = y  5/18  36
Speed of upstream = 5x-4x =15 kmph x + 280 = 10y
8. d; Length of rectangle = 100x Breadth = 100x  10y - 16y/3 = 280
y = 60 kmph
40/100 = 40x Area of the rectangle = 100x  40x
New length of rectangle = 100x 50/100 = 50x New 18. d; K + R + V = 37  3 = 111
area of the rectangle = 100x  40x  125/100 K + V = 42  2 = 84
= 5000x2 R = 111 – 84 = 27
New breadth = 5000x2/50x = 100x Required % = V = 27  16/9 = 48
(100x – 40x)/40x 100 K = 84 – 48 = 36
= 150% Required Ratio = 51:39
9. a; MP – SP = discount MP of article A = 4x = 17:13
19. b; Side of the square = (144)1/2 = 12 cm
MP of article B = 4x 75/100 = 3x
Discounts of article A and B = 100:100/3 = 3:1 (4x Perimeter of the square = 12  4 = 48 cm
– 3000)/(3x – 3000) = 3/1 Length of the rectangle = 48 – 18 = 30 cm
9x – 9000 = 4x – 3000 Breadth of the rectangle = 88/2 – 30 = 14 cm
5x = 6000 Area of the rectangle = 30  14 = 420 cm2
x = 1200 20. b; Let the leakage empty the tank in ‗x‘ hours
MP of article A = 1200  4 = Rs.4800 1/18 -1/x = 1/24
1/18 – 1/24 = 1/x
10. d; x 90/100  90/100  90/100 = 218700 x =
(4-3)/72 = 1/x
300000
x= 72 hours
11. a; A = 1/39
21. b; x + (1/x) = 2
B = 1/x
For x = 1 we get,
A alone complete the work with 75% of efficiency
x + 1/x = 2
= 100/75  39 = 52 days ∴ x99 + (1/x99) – 2 = (1)99 + 1/(1)99 - 2 = 0
B alone complete the work in 13/10 of efficiency 22. a; Let X = (27 + √756)1/3 + (27 – √756)1/3
= 10/13  x = 10x/13 days ∵ (a + b)3 = a3 + b3 + 3ab(a + b)
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⇒ X3 = (27 + √756) + (27 – √756) + 3[(27 + 1/5x + 1/4x = 1/20

√756)(27 – √756)]1/3[(27 + √756)1/3 + (27 – 9/20x = 1/20
√756)1/3] x = 9 days
(∵ (a + b)(a – b) = (a2 – b2) 1/45 + 1/36 + 1/C = 1/15
⇒ X3 = 54 + 3[(729 – 756)]1/3(X) 1/C = 1/15 - 1/45 - 1/36
⇒ X3 = 54 + 3( - 27)1/3(X) 1/C = (36 – 12 - 15)/540 = 1/60
⇒ X3 + 9X – 54 = 0 31. a; Total capacity of the tank = 2400 litres
⇒X=3 P = 2400/120 = 20 litres per hour
∴ (27 + √756)1/3 + (27 – √756)1/3 = 3 Q = 2400/100 = 24 litres per hour
23. b; MP = 5x Required % = [(24 – 20) / 20]  100 = 20 %
CP = 4x 32. d; Milk in 36 liters = 36  5/9 = 20 liters
SP when offer 10% discount = 5x  90/100 = Water in 36 liters = 36  4/9 = 16 liters
9x/2 (5x – 20)/(4x – 16 + 10) = 5/6
SP when offer 15% discount = 5x  85/100 = 20x – 30 = 30x – 120
17x/4 10x = 90
9x/2 + 17x/4 = 4375 x = 9 liters
18x + 17x = 4375  4 Total quantity = 9  9 = 81 liters
x = 500 33. b; Speed of boat in still water = x kmph
CP of TV = 4 500 = Rs.2000 Speed of current = y kmph
24. b; SI = P  N R/100 x – y + x + y = 42
9000  15  x/100 + 8000  5  (x + 10)/100 = => x = 21 kmph
18000 x – y = 80/4 = 20 kmhr
1350x + 400x + 4000 = 18000 Hence y = 1 kmph
1750x = 14000 Downstream speed = x + y = 21 + 1 = 22 kmph
x=8 x + y = 77/t
25. d; Let, incomes of Rajat and Prince be Rs.15k and => t = 77/22 = 3.5 hours
Rs.13k respectively. 34. d; The volume of a cylinder = πr2h = 38808 cm3
(15k – 45000)/(13k – 30000) = 6/7 = > (22/7)  r2  28 = 38808
=> 105k – 315000 = 78k – 180000 = > r2 = (388087) / (22  28) = 441
=> 105k – 78k = 315000 – 180000 = > r = 21 cm
=> 27k = 135000 The height of the cylinder = 28 cm
=> k = 135000/27 The curved surface area of the cylinder = 2πrh
=> k = 5000 = > 2  (22/7)  2128 = 3696 cm2
Income of Rajat = 15 x 5000 = Rs.75000 35. a; Let the train length be x,
Income of Prince = 13 x 5000 = Rs.65000 12 = (x + x) / [(40 + 50)  (5/18)]
Income of Amit = 75000 – 15000 = Rs.60000 12 = (2x  18) / (90  5)
Required ratio = 65000 : 60000 = 13:12 (12  90 5) / 36 = x
26. d; Required probability = (4C2 + 6C2)/(12C2) = [(4  x = 150 m
3) + (6  5)]/(12  11) 36. d; Profit ratio of Esai and Danisha = (x  12):(x +
= 7/22 1500) 4
27. d; Total age of class A = 18  20 = 360 =3x: (x + 1500)
Total age of class C = 2521.6 = 540 3x/(x + 1500) = 2550/1600
Total ages of classes A, B and C = (20 + 30 + x/ (x + 1500) = 85/160
25)  18 = 1350 32x = 17x + 25500
Total age of class B = 1350 – 360 – 540 = 450 15x = 25500
Average age of class B = 450/30 = 15 years x = 1700
28. c; 8 years hence, the age of P and 3 years ago, 37. b; Let the rate be R% per annum.
the age of Q is in the ratio (10000  R  2)/100 + (5000  R  4)/100 = 8000
= 4: 3 (4x, 3x) By solving this, we get R= 20%
The present age of P and Q = 4x – 8, 3x + 3 38. d; MP = 6x
Given, CP = 5x
(4x – 8)  (3x + 3) = 216 6x  90/100 = 10800
12x2 + 12x – 24x – 24 = 216 x = 2000
12x2 – 12x – 240 = 0 CP = 2000  5 = 10000
x2 – x – 20 = 0 SP = 10800
(x + 4) (x – 5) = 0 Profit = 10800 – 10000 = 800
x = -4, 5 (Negative value will be eliminated) 39. c; Length of the train = x
The present age of Q = 3x + 3 = 18 years Speed of train = y
29. b; Salary =100x x + 400 = y  5/18  42
Transport + Shopping + House rent = 12x + 20x 3x + 1200 = 35y
+ 40x = 72x x = (y + 20)  5/18  13.5
Remaining = 100x – 72x = 28x 2x = 7.5y + 150
28x  50/100 = 2800 2  ((35y – 1200)/3) = 7.5y + 150
x = 200 70y – 2400 = 22.5y + 450
Salary = 100  200 = 20000 47.5y = 2850
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40. b; Perimeter of the rectangle = 2  (l + b) ATQ,

2  (b + 8 + b) = 64 (x + 6) × (48 – x) = 14 × (48 – x)
4b + 16 = 64 ⇒ x + 6 = 14
b = 12 cm ⇒x=8
Length of the rectangle = 12 + 8 = 20 cm Age of Sneha = 42 – 8 = 34 years
Area of the rectangle = 12  20 = 240 51. b;
Area of a square = a2 = 240  15
a = 60
Perimeter of the square = 4 a = 60  4 = 240
cm
41. c; Speed in upstream = 500/450 m/sec
Speed in downstream = 500/ (6  60 + 30) m/sec 52. b;
= 500/390 m/sec
Rate in still water = 1/2  (Upstream speed +
Downstream speed)
= 1/2 (500/450 + 500/390)
= 1/2  (50/45 + 50/39)  18/5 kmph
= 4.3 kmph 53. b;
42. d; n(S) = 61 = 6 54. d;
Required samples = (2, 3, 5)
n (E) = 3
The probability of getting prime numbers
P (E) = n(E) / n(S) = 3/6 = 1/2
43. c; Tax/income =1/19, Rate of icome tax =1/20 55. b;
100= 5% 56. b;
44. a; Required number = H.C.F. of (91 - 43), (183 - 91)
and (183 - 43)
= H.C.F. of 48, 92 and 140 = 4.
45. b; Volume of water displaced = (3 x 2 x 0.01) m3=
0.06 m3.
57. b; Logic - (Deficiency : Disease)
Mass of man= Volume of water displaced x Density
Protein : Kwashiorkor
of water
58. d;
= (0.06 x 1000) kg= 60 kg.
46. b; To obtain Rs. 10, investment = Rs. 96.
To obtain Rs. 650, investment = Rs.
(96/10) 650= 6240
47. d; Let the total work be 48 units.
(∵ LCM of 6, 12 and 16 is 48.) 59. d; Given,
Efficiency of pipe A = 48/6 = 8 4  8  2  9  8  15
Efficiency of pipe B = 48/12 = 4
After interchanging '' & ‗+‘
Efficiency of pipe C = -48/16 = -3
 4  8  2  9  8  15
Efficiency of Pipe (A + C) = 8 - 3 = 5
Efficiency of Pipe (B + C) = 4 - 3 = 1  4  4  9  8  15
Work done by Pipe (A + C) and Pipe (B + C) in 2  16  9  8  15
hours = 5 + 1 = 6 units
Work done by Pipe (A + C) and Pipe (B + C) in  15  15
60. d;
(28=16) 16 hours =(68)= 48 units
61. d;
Total time = 16 hours
48. c; Expense = x and Salary = 1.15x 1627  1  6 2  7   7  9 10  630
1.15x – x = 1200 2643  2  6 4  3  8  7 10  560
=> x = 8000 5211  5  2 1  1  7  2 10  140
1519  1  5 1  9  6 10 10  600
Salary = 1.15x = 9200
25% of Salary = Rs.2300
49. d; CA = P [1+r/100]n 62. c;
5000[1+r/100]3 = 6000 63. b;
[1+r/100]3 = 6/5
5000[1+r/100]6 = 5000[[1+r/100]3]2 = 5000 [6/5]2
= 5000  6/5  6/5 = 7200
Compound interest = 7200 – 5000 = Rs.2200
50. b; Let the age of Rajni be x years.
The sum of the age of Rajni and Sneha = 42
years
Age of Sneha = (42 – x) years
After 6 years,
Age of Rajni = (x + 6) years 64. a; From statement 1 we can conclude that previously
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and previously Country B had to import

Compressed Natural Gas. But nothing in the
statement gives us the knowledge that in future
Country B might become a foreign exchange earner,
hence, conclusion II does not follow.
65. b;

66. b;
78. b;
67. b;
Are-2 Come-8
You-5 Shop-7
Alright-4 We/at-9/1
79. c;

80. b;
81. d;
68. c; Letters are coded by their reverse letter.
69. d;

The shortest distance between P and Q=

102  62  100  36  64  8km
82. c;
83. c;
84. d;
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question figure. Ansuman
71. c; Final arrangemen t
Bandana 
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Puspa 
85. a; 1st column :117-69=48
2nd column:89-45=?
 44=?
72. d; 3rd column:221-133=88
86. a; 75-24=51
67-27=40
98-37=61
87. c;

73. a;

88. b;
74. a; 89. c;
7  6 2  84 90. a;
1 5 2  10 91. c; The statement mentions that the Food Items X in
the world are of different types, some are quite good
2  7  2  28 while some are not good. Thus, both I and II follow.
8  4 2  64 92. c;
75. d;
76. c;

93. a;
Total =(15+30)-1=44
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94. c; 85. (d); Notes: The keyboard is used as a text entry
95. a; interface for typing text and numbers .Keyboard
keys typically have characters engraved on them
and each press of a key typically corresponds to a
single written symbol
86. (a); Notes:Space ball is a 3D positioning device.
Space ball is used as a graphical input device to
enter any graphical data or information. Spac ball is
based on fixed spherical ball
87. (a); Notes: DVD is a digital optical disc storage
device developed in 1995.The basic types of DVD
are referred to by a rough approximation of their
96. c; N is more intelligent than M ⇒ N > M capacity in gigabytes.
M isn‘t as intelligent as X ⇒ X > M 88. (d); Notes: Modularization is a technique to divide a
X is more intelligent than Y ⇒ X > Y software system into multiple discreet modules,
X is not as good as N ⇒ N > X which are expected to carry out task independently.
⇒ N > X > Y, M 89. (b); Notes: UNIX is a family of multitasking,
⇒ N is the most intelligent of them all. multiuser computer operating systems. The main
97. a; features of UNIX include multitasking and
portability capabilities.
90. (c); Notes: A database administrator is a specialized
computer systems administrator who maintains a
successful database environment by directing or
performing all related activities to keep the data secure.
91. (d); Notes: Examples of ORDBMSs include
Distance between his final and initial point=
PostgreSQL developed by the PostgreSQL Global
52  102  25  100  125  5 5m Development Group, Oracle Database by Oracle
98. c; The given pairs are Antonym words. Corporation, Informix by IBM,SQL Server by
99. c; (9 × 2) + 5 = 23 Microsoft and Green plum Database by Pivotal
(23 × 2) + 4 = 50 Software etc.
(50 × 2) + 3 = 103 92. (c); Notes: In a relational database, a weak entity is an
(103 × 2) + 2 = 208 entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its attributes
(208 × 2) + 1 = 417 alone. It must use a foreign key in conjunction with its
100. b; Only except ‘DfE’ are of similar pattern. attributes to create a primary key.
93. (b); Notes: Traditional Ethernet uses 10BASE-T
PAPER-II specifications. The number ‘10‘ depicts 10Mbps
1. b 2. a 3. a 4. c 5. b 6. a speed, BASE stands for baseband, and T stands for
7. a 8. b 9. c 10. b 11. b 12. b Thick Ethernet.
13. b 14. c 15. b 16. b 17. b 18. a 94. (a); Notes: The Archie search engine is known to be
19. b 20. b 21.c 22.d 23.c 24.a the first search engine. It was developed in 1991 and
25.b 26.d 27.b 28.d 29.c 30.c was followed by WAIS and Gopher.
31.d 32.c 33.c 34.b 35.a 36.c 95. (c); Notes: Microsoft Access is a database
37.c 38.a 39.a 40.c 41. b 42. b management system (DBMS) from Microsoft and a
43. c 44. a 45. b 46. b 47. c 48. b part of MS Office suite. It combines the relational
49. d 50. c 51. d 52. a 53. b 54. a Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user
55. c 56. b 57. d 58. d 59. d 60. b interface and software-development tools.
61. a 62. a 63. d 64. a 65. b 66. b 96. (a); Notes: Drive-by downloads is a common
67. a 68. c 69. b 70. b 71. b 72. b method of spreading malware. Cybercriminals look
73. a 74. b 75. d 76. b 77. a 78. a for insecure web sites and plant a malicious script
79. b 80. c into the source code.
81. (a); Notes: An arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the part 97. (a); Notes: MILNET was the name given to the part
of the circuit that performs Arithmetic & logical of the ARPANET internetwork designated for
operations. It is the part of a computer processor (CPU). unclassified United States Department of Defense
In some processors, the ALU is divided into two units, traffic. MILNET was physically separated from the
an arithmetic unit (AU) and a logic unit (LU). ARPANET in 1984.
82. (c); Notes:-The period of third generation was from 98. (a); Notes: In Shell Connection, the user will get
1965-1971. The computers of third generation used only textual matter of a Web Page as it does not
Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. support Graphics display or multimedia files.
Structured programming languages such as C, 99. (b);Notes: HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer
COBOL and FORTRAN were used in Third Protocol. It uses port 80 to communicate whereas
Generation computers. HTTPS used port number 443 for communication.
83. (a); Notes: The astrolabe was invented in the 100. (c); Notes: SNMP stands for Simple Network
Hellenistic world by Hipparchus. The astrolabe Management Protocol. It is a TCP/IP protocol for
incorporated a mechanical calendar computer. monitoring networks and network components.
84. (c); Notes computer is much more than an arithmetic
number crunching device and performs many other ****
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WHO'S WHO
LIST OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
NAME OF MINISTER PORTFOLIO CONSTITUTION
Ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions Varanasi (UP)
Narendra Modi epartment of atomic energy, Department of space All
important policy issues and all other portfolios not
allocated to any minister
Rajnath Singh Minister of defence Lucknow (UP)
Amit Shah Minister of home affairs & Ministry of Co-operation Gandhi Nagar (Gujarat)
Nitin Gadkari Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nagpur (MP)
Raj Kumar Singh Minister of Power, New & Renewable Energy Arrah (Bihar)
Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of finance, Minister of corporate affairs Rajya Sabha (Karnataka)
Jyotiraditya Scindia Minister of Civil Aviation Rajya Sabha (MP)
Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of agriculture and farmers welfare Morena (MP)
Ramchandra Prasad Singh Minister of Steel Rajya Sabha (Bihar)
Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister of Railways, Communications, IT & Rajya Sabha (Odisha)
Electronics
Virendra Kumar Minister of social justice and empowerment Tikamgarh (MP)
Dr Subrahmanyam Minister of external affairs Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)
Jaishankar
Pashupati Kumar Paras Minister of Food Processing Industry Hajipur (Bihar)
Arjun Munda Minister of tribal affairs Khunti (Jharkhand)
Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of women and child development Amethi (UP)
Mansukh L. Mandaviya Minister of health and family welfare; Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)
Minister of Chemical & Fertilizer
Bhupender Yadav Minister of environment, forest and climate change, Rajya Sabha (Rajasthan)
Minister of Labour & Employment
Piyush Goyal Minister of Textiles Rajya Sabha
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public (Maharashtra)
Distribution
Minister of Commerce & Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Education, Skill Development & Rajya Sabha (MP)
Entrepreneurship
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of minority affairs Rajya Sabha (Jharkhand)
Pralhad Joshi Minister of parliamentary affairs; Minister of coal; and Dharwad (Karnataka)
Minister ofmines.
Dr. Mahendra Nath Minister of Heavy Industries Chandauli (UP)
Pandey
Giriraj Singh Minister of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Begusarai (Bihar)
Gajendra Singh Minister of jal shakti Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
Shekhawat
Kiren Rijiju Minister of Law & Justrice Arunachal West (Arunachal
Pradesh)
Narayan Tatu Rane Minister of MSME
Sarbananda Sonowal Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Minister of AYUSH
G. Kishan Reddy Minister of Culture & Tourism Secunderabad (Telangana)
Minister of Development of North-Eastern Region
Parshottam Rupala Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandary & Dairy Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)
Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Rajya Sabha (UP)
Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs
Anurag Singh Thakur Minister of Information & Broadcasting Hamirpur (Himachal
Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports Pradesh)

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MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

PORTFOLI
NAME OFMINISTER CONSTITUTION
O
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of statistics and
Rao Inderjit Singh Gurgaon (Haryana)
programme implementation & Planning
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of Science &
Technology
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of Earth Sciences
MoS in the Prime Minister‘s Office;
Uddhampur (J & K)
MoS in the ministry of personnel, public grievancesand
Dr. Jitendra Singh pensions;
MoS in the department of atomic energy; andMoS in the
department of space

MINISTERS OF STATE
NAME OF MINISTER PORTFOLIO CONSTITUTION
Sri Nitish Paramanik Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
D.L. Murgan Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandary and Dairying
Sri John Barla Ministry of Minority Affairs
Dr. Munjapara Ministry of Women and Child Development
Mahendrabhai Ministry of AYUSH
Sri Santanu Thakur Ministry of Minority Affairs
Dr. Bharati Pravin Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Pawer
Dr. Raj Kumar Ranjan Ministry of External Affairs
Singh Ministry of Education
Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Ministry of Finance
Karad
Sushri Pratima Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Bhoumik
Faggansingh Kulaste Ministry of Steel & Rural Development Mandla (MP)
Ashwini Kumar Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Buxar (Bihar)
Choubey Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Arjun Ram Meghwal Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; Bikener (Rajasthan)
Ministry of Culture
General (Retd) V. K. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways & Civil Aviation Ghaziabad (UP)
Singh
Krishan Pal Ministry of Power & Heavy Industries Faridabad (Haryana)
Danve Raosaheb Ministry of Railways, Coal & Mines Jalna (Maharashtra)
Dadarao
Anupriya Singh Patel Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Rajeev Chandrasekhar Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
Ministry of Electronics & IT
Ramdas Athawale Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Rajya Sabha (MP)
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Fatehpur (UP)
and Rural Development
Kushal Kishore Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Muzaffarnagar (UP)
Sushri Shobha Ministry of Agruculture & Farmers Welfare
Karandlaje
Pankaj Chaowdhary Ministry of Finance
V. Muraleedharan Ministry of External Affairs & Praliamentary Affairs
Nityanand Rai Ministry of Home Affairs Ujiarpur (Bihar)
Kapil Moneshwar Patil Ministry of Panchayatiraj
Renuka Singh Saruta Ministry of Tribal Affairs Surguja (Chhatisgarh)

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Som Parkash Ministry of Commerce and Industry Hishiarpur (Punjab)

Rameswar Teli
S.P. Singh Baghel
Kailash Choudhary
Bishweswar Tudu
Shripad Yesso Naik
Sri Bhagwanth Khuba
A. Narayanswamy
Shri Ajay Kumar
Shri Devusinh Chauhan
Shri Ajay Bhatt
Sri B.L. Verma
Smt. Annapurna Devi
Smt. Dar Shana Vikram
Jardosh
Sri Bhanu Pratap Singh
Verma
Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel
Smt. Anu Priya Singh
Patel
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Labour & Dibrugarh (Assam)
Employment
Ministry of Law & Justice
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Barmer (Rajasthan)
Ministry of Tribal Affairs & Jal Shakti
Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Tourism
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Ministry of Chemical Fertilizer
Ministry of Social Justrice & Empowerment
Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Communication
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Tourism
Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region
Ministry of Co-operation
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Textile
Ministry of Railway
Minor, Small and Medium Enterpreniur
Ministry of Law and Justice
Ministry of Commerce and Industry

GOVERNOR & CHIEF MINISTER OF STATE

State Capital Governor Chief Minister
Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Biswabhushan Harichandan Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Brigadier B.D Mishra (Retd) Pema Khandu
Assam Dispur Jagdish Mukhi Himanta Biswa Sarma
Bihar Patna Phagu Chauhan Nitish Kumar
Chhattisgarh Naya Raipur/Bilaspur Anusuiya Uikey Bhupesh Bhagel
Goa Panaji PS Sreedharan Pillai Pramod Sawant
Gujarat Gandhinagar Acharya Devvrat Bhupendrabhai Patel
Haryana Chandigarh Bandaru Dattatreya Manohar Lal Khattar
Himachal Pradesh Summer Capital: Shimla
Winter Capital: Dharamshala Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar Jai Ram Thakur
Jharkhand Ranchi Ramesh Bais Hemant Soren
Karnataka Bengaluru Thawar Chand Gehlot Sri Basavaraj Bommai
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Arif Mohammed Khan Pinarayi Vijayan
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Mangubhai Chaganbhai Patel Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Maharashtra Mumbai Bhagat Singh Koshyari Uddhav Thackeray
Manipur Imphal Shri La. Ganesan N. Biren Singh
Meghalaya Shillong Satya Pal Malik Conrad Kongkal Sangma
Mizoram Aizwal Dr. Kambhampati Haribabu Zoramthanga
Nagaland Kohima Jagdish Mukhi Neiphiu Rio
Odisha Bhubaneshwar Prof. Ganeshi Lal Mathur Naveen Patnaik
Punjab Chandigarh Shri Banwarilal Purohit Bhagwant Mann
Rajasthan Jaipur Kalraj Mishra Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim Gangtok Ganga Prasad Prem Singh Tamang (PS Golay)
Tamil Nadu Chennai R. N. Ravi M. K. Stalin
Telangana Hyderabad Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan K. Chandrashekhar Rao
Tripura Agartala Satyadev Narayan Arya Manik Saha
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Anandiben Patel Yogi Adityanath
Uttarakhand Winter Capital: Dehradun
Summer Capital: Gairsain Gurmit Singh Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami
West Bengal Kolkata Jagdeep Dhankar Mamata Banerjee

Union territory with their Capital and LG/Administrator

Union Territory Capital Governor
Andaman & Nicobar Port Blair Shri. Devendra Kumar Joshi (Lieutenant
Governor)
Chandigarh Chandigarh Banawari Purohit
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Daman Shri Praful Patel (Administrator)
Delhi (National capital Territory of Delhi) New Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor)
Chief Minister: Arvind Kejriwal

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Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar (May-October) Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)
Jammu (November-April)
Lakshadweep Kavaratti Shri Praful Patel (Administrator)
Puducherry Puducherry Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan (Lt Governor)
Chief Minister: N. Rangaswamy
Ladakh Leh Shri Radha Krishna Mathur (Lieutenant Governor)

Constitutional Office-Holders
President Ram Nath Kovind
Vice President and ex-officio Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Chief Justice N. V. Ramana
Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar
Comptroller and Auditor General Girish Chandra Murmu
Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission Manoj Soni
Attorney General K. K. Venugopal

Important Office Holders

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Pramod Kumar Misra
Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla
Finance Secretary T. V. Somanathan
Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar
Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra
Law Secretary Anoop Kumar Mendiratta
Secretary General of the Lok Sabha Utpal Kumar Singh
Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha P.C.Mody
Secretary General of Supreme Court of India Sanjeev S. Kalgaonkar
Chairperson of the Railway Board Binay Kumar Tripathy
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta
Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay K. Sood
Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran

Heads of Statutory Commissions

Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission Arun Kumar Mishra
Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura
Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vijay Sampla
Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Harsh Chouhan
Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes Bhagwan Lal Sahni
Chairperson of the National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma
Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Priyank Kanungo
Chairperson of the Central Administrative Tribunal L. Narasimha Reddy
Chairperson of the Central Vigilance Commission Suresh N. Patel
Chairperson of the Central Information Commission Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission K. N. Vyas
Director of the Department of Space S. Somanath
The Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), S. Somanath
Chairperson of the University Grants Commission M. Jagdesh Kumar
Chairperson of the Central Water Commission Narendra Kumar
Director of the Space Applications Centre Nilesh Desai
Chairperson of the National Forest Commission B. N. Kirpal
Chairperson of the Competition Commission Ashok Kumar Gupta

Heads of Financial Bodies

Chairperson of the 15th Finance Commission of India N. K. Singh
Governor, of the Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das
Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Madhabi Puri Buch
Chairperson of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Debasish Panda
Chairperson of the 7th Pay Commission Ashok Kumar Mathur
Chairperson of the Small Industries Development Bank Sivasubramanian Ramann
Chairperson of the Company Law Board Mahesh Kumar Mittal
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Export-Import Bank Harsha Bhupendra Bangari
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the National Housing Bank Sarada Kumar Hota
Chairperson of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Govindarajulu Chinthala
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Industrial Finance Corporation Emandi Sankara Rao
Chairperson of the National Stock Exchange Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
Chairperson of the Bombay Stock Exchange S. S. Mundra
Chairperson of the State Bank of India Dinesh Kumar Khara
Chairperson of the Industrial Development Bank Mahesh Kumar Jain

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Chairperson of the Life Insurance Corporation M. R. Kumar

Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes Nitin Gupta
Chairperson of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs Vivek Johri
President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Uday Shankar
Chairperson of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Supramita Bandhopadhaya
President of the Confederation of Indian Industry Sanjiv Bajaj
Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India Ashok Kumar Gupta
President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry Balkrishna Goenka
Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission GP Samant
Director General of the Archaeological Survey V. Vidyavathi
Chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority P.D. Vaghela
Director of the Enforcement Directorate Sanjay Kumar Mishra
Chief Managing Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Alka Mittal
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Gas Authority of India Limited Shri Manoj Jain
Chairperson of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited Shrikant Madhav Vaidya
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Oil India Limited Sushil Chandra Mishra

Defence and Security

Chief of Defence Staff
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari
Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Pande
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R. Hari Kumar
Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Vice Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna
Director General of the Military Intelligence Lieutenant General K. G. Krishna
Director of the Intelligence Bureau Tapan Kumar Deka
Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing Samant Goel, IPS
Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, IPS
Director General of the Border Security Force Pankar Kumar Singh
Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force Kuldiep Singh, IPS
Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force Sheel Vardhan Singh, IPS
Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Sanjay Arora, IPS
Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal SANJAY ARORA, IPS
Director General of the National Security Guard Shri M.A Ganapathy
Director General of the National Investigation Agency Kuldiep Singh
Director General of the National Disaster Response Force Atul Karwal

Government of Odisha
CABINET MINISTERS:
SC & ST Development, Minorities & Backward Classes Jagannath Saraka
Finance, Parliamentary Affairs Niranjan Pujari
Agriculture & Farmers‘ Empowerment, Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Ranendra Pratap Swain
Forest & Environment, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water, Information & Public Relations Pradip Kumar Amat
Revenue & Disaster Management Pramila Mallick
Housing & Urban Development Usha Devi
Steel & Mines, Works Prafulla Mallick
Industries, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Energy Pratap Keshari Deb
Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare, Cooperation Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak
Health & Family Welfare Naba Kisore Das
Water Resources, Commerce & Transport Tukuni Sahu
Science & Technology, Public Enterprises, Social Security & Empowerment of PwDs Ashok Kumar Panda
Planning & Convergence Rajendra Dholakia

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

School and Mass Education Samir Ranjan Dash
Tourism, Odia Language, Literature & Culture, Excise Ashwini Patra
Rural Development, Skill Development & Technical Education Priti Ranjan Ghadei
Labour & Employees‘ State Insurance Srikant Sahoo
Electronics & IT, Sports & Youth Affairs Tusharkanti Behera
Higher Education Rohit Pujari
Handlooms, Textiles & Handicrafts Rita Sahu
Women & Child Development and Mission Shakti Basanti Hembrem

MINISTERS OF STATE
Home Tusharkanti Behera

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ABBREVIATION
Acronyms Abbreviations CAD Current Account Deficit
ACS Automated Clearing CAR Capital Adequacy Ratio
System. CARE Credit Analysis and
AD Authorized Dealer. Research Limited
ADB Asian Development CASA Current and Savings
Bank. Accounts
ADF Automated Data Flow CBLO Collateralized Bank
AEPS Aadhaar Enabled Lending Obligations
Payments Switch CBS Core Banking Solution.
CCIL Clearing Corporation of
AFS Annual Financial India Limited
Statement. CCL Cash Credit Limit
AIC Agricultural Insurance CDB Caribbean Development
Company. Bank.
AIF Alternative Investment CDBS Committee of Direction
Fund on Banking Statistics.
ALCO Asset Liability CDRS Corporate Debt
Committee Restructuring
ALM Asset Liability CDS Credit Default Swap.
Management CEPA Comprehensive
AMFL Association of Mutual Economic Partnership
Funds in India Management.
AML Anti-Money Laundering CFRA Combined Finance and
AMRMS Audit and Risk Revenue Accounts.
Monitoring Mechanism CGRA Currency and Gold
ANBC Adjusted Net Bank Revaluation Account.
Credit CIBIL Credit Information
APBS Aadhaar Payment Bureau of India Limited
Bridge System CMIS Currency Management
ARC Asset Reconstruction InformationSystem
Companies CNP Card Not Present
ASBA Applications Supported CPFF Commercial Paper
Bank Accounts Funding Facility
ASSOCHAM Associated Chambers of CPI Consumer Price Index.
Commerce and Industry CRAR Capital To Risk
of India. Weighted Asset Ratio.
ATM Automated Teller CRISIL Credit Rating
Machine. Information Services Of
BCBS Basel Committee on India
Banking Supervision CRMD Credit Risk
BCSBI Banking Codes and Management
Standards Board of Department.
India CRR Cash Reserve Ratio.
BIS Bank for International CSR Corporate Social
Settlements. Responsibility
BOE Bill of Exchange CTI Country Threat Index.
BOP Balance of Payments. DPG Deferred Payment
BOT Build,Operate and Guarantee
Transfer. DPN Demand Promissory
BSCS Basel Committee on Note
Banking Supervision. DRAT Debt Recovery
BSE Bombay Stock Appellate Tribunal
Exchange. DRI Differential Rate Of
BSR Basic Statistical Interest
Returns. DSCR Debt Service Coverage

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Ratio FIPB Foreign Investment

DTAA Double Taxation Promotion Board.
Avoidance Agreement. FPI Foreign Portfolio
EBRD European Bank for Investment.
Reconstruction and FTA Free Trade Agreement.
Development. GAAR General Anti Avoidance
ECB External Commercial Rule.
Borrowings. GDR Global Depository
ECS Electronic Clearing Receipt.
System. GFD Gross Fiscal Deficit.
EDF Export Development GIRO Government Internal
Fund Revenue Order.
EDI Electronic Data GMS Gold Monetisation
Internchange Scheme
EDP Entrepreneurship GSTN Goods and Services
Development Network
Programme HDFC Housing Development
EEFC Exchange Earners‘ Finance Corporation
Foreign Currency IADB Inter American
EFTPOS Electronic Funds Development Bank.
Transfer At Point Of IAS Integrated Accounting
Sale Systems
EIB European Investment IBBI Insolvency and
Bank. Bankruptcy Board of
ELSS Equity Linked Saving India
Scheme. IBRD International Bank for
EMI Equated Monthly Reconstruction and
Installments Development
EPFO Employees‘ Provident IBU International Banking
Fund Organisation Unit
EPOS Electronic Point Of Sale ICA Indian Council of
EPS Earning per Share Agricultural Research.
ESOP Employee Stock ICICI Industrial Credit and
Options Investment Corporation
EXIM Export Import Bank of of India.
India. ICRA Investment Information
FCA Foreign Currency and Credit Rating
Assets. Agency of India Limited
FCCB Foreign Currency IDB Islamic Development
Convertible Bond Bank.
FCNR Foreign Currency Non IDBI Industrial Development
Resident Deposit Bank of India.
Accounts IDR Indian Depository
FCNRA Foreign Currency Non Receipts.
resident Account. IDRBT Institute for
FDI Foreign Direct Development and
Investment. Research OfBanking
FEDAI Foreign Exchange IEPF Investors Education and
Dealers Association Of Protection Fund
India IFC International Finance
FERA Foreign Exchange Corporation
Regulation Act. IIB International Investment
FICCI Federation of Indian Bank.
Chambers of Commerce IIBF Indian Institute of
and Industry Banking and Finance.
FII Foreign Institutional IMF International Monetary
Investor. Fund.
FINO Financial Information IMPS Immediate Payment
Network and Service
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IOB Indian Overseas Bank. MIBOR Mumbai Inter Bank
IPO Initial Public Offering Offer Rate.
IPPB India Post Payments MICR Magnetic Ink Character
Bank Recognition
IRBI Industrial MIS Management
Reconstruction Bank Of Information System
India. MSS Market Stabilisation
IRDA Insurance Regulatory Scheme
and Development MTN Medium Term Note
Authority of India MUDRA Micro Units
IROs Interest rate options Development And
IRR Internal Rate Of Return. Refinance Agency
ISCI International Standard NABARD National Bank For
IndustrialClassification Agricultural And Rural
KCC Kisan Credit Card Development
KMB Kotak Mahindra Bank. NAS National Account
KVB Karur Vysya Bank. Statistics.
KVIC Khadi and Village NAV Net Asset Value.
Industries Corporation NBC Non Banking
KVP Kisan Vikas Patra Companies.
KYC Know Your Customer NBFC Non Banking Finance
Guidelines LAB Local Companies
Area Bank. NDA Net Domestic Asset
LAF Liquidity Adjustment NDS Negotiated Dealing
Facility Systems
LAMPS Large Sized Adivasi NDTL Net Demand And Time
Multipurpose Societies Liability
LDB Land NECS National Electronic
Development Bank. Clearing System
LERMS Liberalized Exchange NEFT National Electronic
Rate Management Funds Transfer System.
System NFA No Frills Account.
LIBOR London Inter Bank NFC Non Banking Finance
Offered Rate. Companies.
LIC Life Insurance NFS National Financial
Corporation Of India Switch
LTCG Long-Term Capital NHB National Housing Bank.
Gains NIB Nordic Investment
LTN Long Term Note Bank.
MCA Ministry Of Company NPA Non Performing Assets.
Affairs NPCI National Payments
MCLR Marginal Cost Of Corporation Of India
Lending Rate NPS National Pensions
MFDF Micro Finance Scheme
Development Fund NPV Net Present Value

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